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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 12:33:55 -40962758 (MST)
From: Herb Peyerl <Herb.Peyerl@sidney.novatel.ca>
To: Scott Reynolds <scott@bart.acs.nmu.edu>
Subject: Re: NFS MOUNTS ON NETBSD-CURRENT WITH SOLARIS 2.X?

: The NFS server here is SunOS 4.1.x, likewise.  No NFS problems that I am 
: aware of for several weeks, perhaps more.

In my case; the NetBSD/i386 machine is the NFS server and the SunOS machine
is the client.  I don't believe I have problems with the reverse.

The symptoms I am seeing (with if_ed) are that small transactions are 
fine (mount, ls), but actually copying files (from a SunOS client to 
a NetBSD/i386 server) will cause a hang.

with if_ep; I am seeing everything work fine for a while and then eventually
an mbuf starvation situation will arise.  This is NFS only though. I don't see
this with TCP traffic. I was going to try NFS/TCP but haven't had time.

Rumor has it this only affects slow machines (I have a 386-40).  Again;
my hp345 (68030 @ 55Mhz) running NetBSD doesn't have this problem. It's
currently my NFS server until this problem is resolved.

The only reason I'm talking about this is because I don't have any time to
track down the problem myself.

hpeyerl@novatel.ca                           |  NovAtel Commnications Ltd.
hpeyerl@fsa.ca                               | <nothing I say matters anyway>
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