Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:24:41AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>>> Wasn't there a problem in the past with large UDP packets and NFS?
>>
>>
>> Yes, but it hasn't changed and never will. Large UDP packets are sent
>> as IP fragments. If you lose one of the IP fragments the whole UDP
>> packet is lost because there is no selective retransmit. When a machine
>> e.g. loses 5% of incoming packets at least one of the IP fragments
>> of a 32KB UDP packet will always get lost. Retries will not help because
>> another single lost packet will prevent the reception of the UDP packet.
> 
> The problem is that some hardware cannot send that many packets in a 
> burst like NFS does. So it will never succeed.
> 
> Ah, found it.
> NFS_RSIZE, NFS_WSIZE and NFS_READDIRSIZE
> you can set those options in your config file to change the size of 
> those packets.

Bingo! That was it. Stupid of me not to remember, since I have had 
similar problems on other machines in the past.

But I believe it was only i386 which used to have 32K reads and writes 
over NFS before. Looking at sys/nfs/nfs.h it appears the default is 8K. 
I don't know which it actually defaults to, but changing it to 2K made 
my VAX happy.

Now we just have to figure out the build failure in lib/libc/rpc/svc_vc.c

Has anyone looked at it (apart from Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)?

	Johnny

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