Subject: Re: kern/12187: nfs_timer: ignoring error 55- what's it for and why does it whine so? (fwd)
To: Matthew Jacob , Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 04/08/2001 00:55:26
On Saturday 07 April 2001  6:17 pm, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:30:51PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > FWIW-  I believe that 1.6 should not ship without this being addressed.
> > > I've just about given up trying to link alpha kernels if the
> > > destination FS is NFS mounted- I have to reset the Alpha to recover.
> >
> > 55 is ENOBUFS. Do you have messages about NMBCLUSTERS being too low ?
> > What does kern.mbuf.nmbclusters say ? Did you try to bump that ?
>
> No, I don't have that as low.
>
> > Also what network adapter do you use ?
>
> tulip.
>
> My point here is that an out of the box system performing normal operations
> on an uncongested network should not lock up printing out obscure error
> messages. I knew it was ENOBUFS.

I know this is a stab in the dark, but could it relate to the 8k/32k 
blocksize thing that was changed back to 8k recently?  Of course it could be 
tiredness giving me these strange ideas :)

Chris