Re: nfs server performance (netbsd-5)

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 06:40:37PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:44:19AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > >What are the RPC errors, reported by nfsstats?  The number is increasing.
> > Can be almost anything. It just counts RPCs that return an
> > error status. Since that's a reply to the client you can
> > probably see what fails with wireshark.
> 
> Hmm, wireshark looks like a gui program - and I must run it as root, right?
> :-(

You don't have to run it as root.  You can capture with tcpdump -w as
any user who has access to /dev/bpf, and then you can view the capture
"off-line" with Wireshark.

Dave

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