Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 15:35:46 -0600 From: Jason McNew <jase@clearsail.net> To: "Brian C. Grayson" <bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mounting problems. Message-ID: <36703EB2.8C44152F@clearsail.net> References: <365C6443.52E75DCA@clearsail.net> <19981126034730.A4797@c3p0.ece.utexas.edu> <365E005D.26590B25@clearsail.net> <19981126202014.A24457@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> <3662CD6C.118F81A@clearsail.net> <19981202182856.A9978@marvin.ece.utexas.edu>
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This worked! The performance is not spectacular, but it's much better than 0. Thank you verry much :) "Brian C. Grayson" wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 10:53:00AM -0600, Jason McNew wrote: > > > > If I recall correctly, DMA is supported with the xl driver. Perhaps I'm > > mistaken? We are using the xl driver on the server which is running > > 2.2.7-19981123-SNAP. The client is 2.2.7-Rlease using vx. > > That could be -- I have a hard time tracking NetBSD, much less > FreeBSD! I noticed that the if_xl* files in 3.0 have all > sorts of DMA stuff -- check your 2.2.7 tree in > /usr/src/sys/pci/if_xl* (grep -i dma if_xl*). > > > > Anyway, there are several potential solutions: > > > 1. Limit wsize and rsize to 1024 bytes, so that each NFS > > > request fits inside a single Ethernet packet. This is what > > > I had to do, until I can get around to tsting out a new > > > kernel for our server with DMA 3c905. > > > > I'll give that a try. Just one quick question: where about do I set this? Is > > it a configuration to set for the card or for nfs? > > If these filesystems are mounted via /etc/fstab, add the > options -w1024,-r1024 like this: > latte:/a/latte/home/latte /home/latte nfs rw,-w1024 0 0 > > > Thanks! Hope you had a nice thanksgiving. :) > > Just got back from the Micro-31 conference this afternoon -- > getting ready for that sort of cut into my Turkey-day > festivities, but it was a nice break. > > Brian > -- > "Warum?" > "It absorbs the sound." > "Das ist nicht Deutsch." > "No, it's not!" > -- Exchange between Dr. Weissenberger and a student in GERM 101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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