From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 4 05:51:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA08790 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 05:51:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA08785 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 05:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dbws.etinc.com (dbws.etinc.com [204.141.95.130]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA09019; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:55:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970404090548.006b121c@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 09:05:57 -0500 To: Doug Rabson From: dennis Subject: Re: NFS problems with 2.2.1R Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:40 AM 4/4/97 +0100, you wrote: >On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > >> >> I've concluded that the problems that I've been having are *not* due to >> a buggy de driver but NFS. I have the same symptoms on a totally >> different machine with an ne2000 card as I had with the de PCI >> card. >> >> My server is a 2.1.6R box which has been reliably been working for >> quite some time (previously with 2.1.5 of course). When loading >> 2.2.1R via NFS, it consistantly hangs loading bin, however not >> in the same place. The system completely hangs (ie alt-F keys >> do not work, cant ctl-alt-del...). >> >> Anyone with any ideas on how to get around this? I loaded 2.2R >> without incident on the same hardware. > >When the system is hung, is there any net traffic? I just fixed a bug in >current which caused it to loop, continually re-reading the same directory >block. This is really obvious when you use tcpdump. I can make a patch >for this specific problem against 2.2 but I don't (yet) have a 2.2 machine >to test. No, there is no network traffic. I have a LAN monitor on the network and the server sends a window of frames that do not get ack'd by the hung machine. As this is occurring with the boot floppy I'm not able to do much diagnosis :( Dennis > >-- >Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com >Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 > > >