From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 00:23:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31D016A474 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:23:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chucklever@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AE643D46 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:23:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chucklever@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id x3so36894nzd for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:23:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VVA9oxJnQ8E/qq9oKUKC6IIYMO4UwxWl9pgZs/8pbIzoQL8BfLFDNA8CVnMGOqN0DW+BloK+ZImkqSvY+f2W73Kenl0RG3zGVnpsT/TFI2RHVyDZLVdHbJPwDMvdYTfV/z8dGBHb82kGpkDDdvopUqIsQXA+uLUK+eMl2TjfWFo= Received: by 10.65.181.9 with SMTP id i9mr23658qbp; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.21.9 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <76bd70e30606201723k1b561970ra8f7b516c89acbca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:23:38 -0700 From: "Chuck Lever" To: "Steve Kargl" In-Reply-To: <20060620225118.GA98667@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060620205617.GR83482@over-yonder.net> <20060620223115.21443.qmail@web30803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060620225118.GA98667@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:53:41 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , Mohan Srinivasan , "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: Often experiencing nfs server foo:/bar: not responding X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:23:40 -0000 On 6/20/06, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:31:15PM -0700, Mohan Srinivasan wrote: > > > > --- "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:45:07PM -0700 I heard the voice of > > > David O'Brien, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > > > > > Note that mounting NFS /home with -T "fixes" the problem. > > > > > > Hm, that's a point. I have an early-June -CURRENT as a NFS client on > > > a late-Nov. -CURRENT NFS server, and haven't had any troubles. But I > > > do use TCP mounts. > > > > > > > I am not able to reproduce the problems you report :( > > > > 1) On the latest -current NFS client, and against both NetApp filers and > > FreeBSD 4.11 servers, mounting NFS/UDP, > > > > I copied a .tgz image of the freebsd source tree to an NFS mount, untarred > > it over NFS and built the kernel over NFS. > > > > That works fine. I don't see any "server not responding messages". > > > > 2) Then I did the same with a FreeBSD4.11 client and the FreeBSD -current > > server - copying the .tgz file over NFS and untarring it over NFS, to see > > if might be a -current NFS server issue. That works fine too. > > > > Unfortunately, I am unable to mount -current against -current here. > > > > I have a mix of bge and fxp cards. > > I've seen the problem described by David on RELENG_6. > > You can see the network topology at > http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/hpc.html > The NFS server is on node10 (bge1) and /home is exported to node11 > through node15. If I mount node10:/usr/src on node15 a "make installworld" > will result in a never ending stream of "server not responding messages". Has anyone who has seen this issue tried using the dumb timer mount option? -- "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals" -- Quarry worker's creed