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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:00:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        ntai@mac.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mbuf clusters behavior (NMBCLUSTERS)
Message-ID:  <15668.13574.480189.404472@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <867kjvoj9f.wl@mac.com>
References:  <86k7nwwttv.wl@mac.com> <867kjvoj9f.wl@mac.com>

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Naoyuki Tai writes:
 > 
 > If someone can answer this question, I can probably start troubleshoot
 > the problem.
 > 
 > After nfs server uses up the mbuf clusters, how are the mbuf clusters
 > flushed?

An nfs server does not use up the clusters; data is copied from
clusters into the buffer cache, then written to disk.

 > Should I try to change "maxusers 0" to a number like 10?

No!

 > One thing I forgot to mention is that the file system uses soft update.
 > Would it matter?

No.

None of this matters.  You're getting killed by lots of IP frags
because of RH Linux's stupid 16K UDP read/write defualts.

As I suggested in my previous message, you should reduce
net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets and reduce the read/write size the linux
clients are using (change the default in their fstabs).

Drew

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