From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 23 7:42: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from abe.hymarc.com (homer.hymarc.com [206.191.28.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B7015232 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:41:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rleir@hymarc.com) Received: from moe.hymarc.com (moe.hymarc.com [89.0.0.5]) by abe.hymarc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA22749 for <@abe.hymarc.com:stable@freebsd.org>; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:41:45 -0500 Received: from lisa.hymarc.com (lisa.hymarc.com [89.0.0.35]) by moe.hymarc.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA14021 for <@moe.hymarc.com:stable@freebsd.org>; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:41:37 -0500 Received: from hymarc.com (localhost.hymarc.com [127.0.0.1]) by lisa.hymarc.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA09394 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:41:35 -0500 Message-ID: <36F7B62F.A473A632@hymarc.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:41:35 -0500 From: Rick Leir Organization: Hymarc 3D Vision Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.4 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS problems with Solaris 2.6 Server References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have also been seeing delays that could be due to NFS. I am using FreeBSD 3.1 Stable as a fileserver for SGI boxes, IRIX 5.n, 6.3, 6.5. What is the best way to monitor NFS? Tcpdump? I feel that I should capture more info before I open a Bugtraq item. Who is developing NFS, so I could help? Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > >> Is there something so serious in 3.1 to deserve another release ? > > A *LOT* of potential deadlock conditions and NFS bugs were corrected. > > Which brings me to another point: Are there any known issues between > FreeBSD 3.1 clients and Solaris 2.6 servers? > > We had no problems with FreeBSD 2.2.x, but since we switched to 3.1, we > indeterministically experience extremely long NFS delays now and then. > > Delays in the range of a couple of minutes, that is! > > What kind were these NFS bugs that have been corrected in the meantime? > I checked the GNATS database, but failed to find anything relevant for > our situation. > Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ -- Rick Leir, Hymarc 3D Vision Systems (613) 727 1584 x214 Fast, precise laser scanners. http://www.hymarc.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message