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From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
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To: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: nfs trouble
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# of buffers can probably be fixed by configuring the kernel. MAXUSERS
will probably fix it. Check LINT in /sys/i386/conf

As for nfs server not responding, this might also be some lack of
resources problem, so they could be related. I'm just guessing here,
though :-/

/Palle


Antti Kantee wrote:
> 
> I just installed FreeBSD on a 486 box to act as an NFS server. Sometimes
> under heavy usage I get these messages:
> nfs server starfury:/usr/home: not responding
> nfs server starfury:/usr/home: is alive again
> While they actually don't do any harm exept spam my logs, it would be nice
> if I could make them "go away" using some nice tweaking parameters.
> 
> Another problem I had was when the network just froze up completely.
> Logging from console to the FreeBSD box I noticed that sendto failed
> because there were no more free buffers. Any advice?
> 
> The main client is a NetBSD/i386 box.
> 
> note, please cc me because I'm not on the list (not yet atleast)
> 
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