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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news1.oakland.edu!news.nd.edu!bsu-cs!nowhere 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 References: <5655@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 26 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] 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