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From: nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Chael Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 NFS problems
Message-ID: <5656@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 94 01:08:49 GMT
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Chael Hall (nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu) wrote:
: I am not sure if this problem has been addressed yet, but I do not read
:news very frequently... My system (chaos.bsu.edu) has had several other
:file systems mounted on it via NFS at one time or another. All of them have
:had the same problem -- the Ethernet driver loses packets. When it misses its
:packet of NFS data, the process just sits waiting for it (the status says D+,
:meaning that it is waiting on a disk access.) It eventually times out and
:I don't get the data.
[stuff deleted]
:If possible, please e-mail responses.
Well, here I am responding to my own post. I have gotten NFS to give
much better performance by using the following options in fstab:
soft,intr,bg,rsize=1024,wsize=1024
This does not solve the problem, though, so if there are any solutions,
I am still interested!
Thanks.
Chael Hall
nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu