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Date:      Wed, 26 May 1999 14:57:07 +0200
From:      Kent Boortz <kent@erlang.ericsson.se>
To:        questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        kent@erlang.ericsson.se
Subject:   Problem running NFS server
Message-ID:  <19990526145707M.kent@erlang.ericsson.se>

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I use FreeBSD 3.1 as an NFS server in an environment with almost
exclusively Solaris Sparc workstations. I needed an extra NFS server
for our "Daily Builds" so I grabbed an Dell Optiplex 264MHz PII with
64 MB RAM and I put in an extra 7200 rpm 14 GB IDE disk to export
using NFS. It is connected with 100 Mbit ethernet to a switch.

Problem is, it has problems working as an NFS server. The load is
heavy at time from up to three clients. But I expected a FreeBSD
system to deal with this at least as good as an old Ultra 1
SparcStation that I used earlier as an NFS server. Could you give me
hints about what the problem can be and maybe what commands to use for
monitoring the problem? I include the "dmesg" output at the end of
this mail.

The Solaris client get lots of "NFS server turkey not responding still
trying" and some /var/adm/messages

  NFS create failed for server turkey: error 11 (RPC: Server can't decode arguments)
  NFS create failed for server turkey: error 9 (RPC: Program/version mismatch)
  NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 10 (RPC: Procedure unavailable)
  NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 11 (RPC: Server can't decode arguments)
  NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error)
  NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 8 (RPC: Program unavailable)
  NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 9 (RPC: Program/version mismatch)

In the log file from one the daily builds there was two "I/O error"
writing to the NFS exported disk. The FreeBSD box has no /var/log/messages
that i can relate to this problems.

The FreeBSD machine has also rebooted a couple of times with no trace
of the cause in the message log. It has also lost network contact a
couple of times requiring a reboot (I don't have details about the
state it was in, I was not the one rebooting it). No heavy load at the
time for the spontaneous reboots or lost contact.

I suspect DMA is disabled from the dmesg output below, how do I enable it?
Can this be the problem?

Is the 64MB memory the problem?

Does the NFS errors above indicate ethernet card buffer overun?

Is there incompatibilities between NFS clients on Solaris 2.5.1 and
the NFS server on FreeBSD 3.1?

Or is FreeBSD 3.1 not stable enough? Should I switch to FreeBSD 2.X?

Or is it really true that IDE sucks?  ;-)

/kgb


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FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #4: Thu Apr 29 14:12:04 CEST 1999
    root@scotch:/a/super/export/exec/x86.freebsd/src/sys/compile/CSLAB
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium II (264.89-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x634  Stepping=4
  Features=0x80f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX>
real memory  = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
avail memory = 62291968 (60832K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf02d8000.
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7180)> rev 0x03 on pci0.0.0
chip1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7181)> rev 0x03 on pci0.1.0
chip2: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0
ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX4 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.1
chip3: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.3
chip4: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=1011 device=0024)> rev 0x03 on pci0.15.0
xl0: <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:4f:91:6b:d4
xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 100Mbps)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
vga0: <ATI model 4744 graphics accelerator> rev 0x5c on pci1.0.0
Probing for devices on PCI bus 2:
Probing for PnP devices:
CSN 1 Vendor ID: CSC6835 [0x3568630e] Serial 0xffffffff Comp ID: @@@0000 [0x00000000]
mss_attach <CS4236B>1 at 0x530 irq 5 dma 1:0 flags 0x10
pcm1 (CS423x/Yamaha/AD1816 <CS4236B> sn 0xffffffff) at 0x530-0x537 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x10 on isa
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 on isa
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
psm0 not found
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
pcm0 not probed due to drq conflict with pcm1 at 1
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 84320D4>
wd0: 4120MB (8438850 sectors), 8930 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <IBM-DTTA-371440>
wd2: 13783MB (28229040 sectors), 28005 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): <NEC                 CD-ROM DRIVE:288/3.04>, removable, dma, iordy
acd0: drive speed 2067 - 4134KB/sec, 128KB cache
acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-DA
acd0: Audio: play, 16 volume levels
acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray
acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
nlpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
apm0 flags 0x31 on isa
apm: found APM BIOS version 1.2
changing root device to wd0s1a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates


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