Subject: Re: NFS server hangs under 1.4.1
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kent Polk <kent@tiamat.goathill.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/07/2000 16:36:50
On 6 Mar 2000 17:12:19 GMT, Kent Polk wrote:
>
>I have had an NFS problem with ep/3C509 as a NFS client for almost
>a year. The server is a Solaris Ultra 5 and this problem only exists
>with the NetBSD (1.4.0/1.4.1) NFS client. The problem is that when
>*sending* files around 2MB and larger, the NetBSD client starts
>hanging for typically from about 30 seconds to a minute or so and
>sometimes it simply fails. When it fails, nfsstat indicates the

I picked a ~10MB file and repeatedly sent it via NFS to the server.
After 2MB, it would hang for about 30 seconds about each MB
thereafter, but never failed.  I finally started getting log hits:

nfs send error 55