From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 13:09:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06380 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06372 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22492; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:08:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980716150829.A22302@emsphone.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:08:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Eric Patterson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfsd send error 55 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from "Eric Patterson" on Thu Jul 16 13:55:48 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 16), Eric Patterson said: > I have a machine running freebsd 2.2.6-RELEASE. Attached to it is a > RAID (CMD TECH CRD-5440 controller). It is mounted as one big 128 GB > file system. Several machines in turn mount this file system via > nfs. Most of the NFS clients are running IRIX. Quite often in a > day, I get the following message on the console of the freebsd NFS > server: > > /kernel: nfsd send error 55 > last message repeated X times > > None of the users of the NFS clients ever complain. I haven't > noticed any other really strange behavior. 55 is the errno number for "No buffer space available". So your ethernet card is backing up too much data. Take a look at your network; cable speed, switches, cards, etc: If you have: Consider using: Shared Port Switched Port 10mbit Port 100mbit Port ISA NIC PCI NIC Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100 cards go for around $70-80 nowadays, and at the moment, I'm doing ~9Mbyte/sec over NFS on a pair of them. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message