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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal) Subject: Re: NFS PROBLEMS AFTER PATCH 0.2.2 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 22:36:08 GMT Message-ID: <C4ttG9.2qB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <733572001snz@feline.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 53 steve@feline.demon.co.uk (Steve Owen) writes: >I have just loaded the patchkit 0.2.2 on a "virgin" system. Because >of the extra disk space taken by the full /usr/src tree I am now >trying to mount my XFree86 directory across NFS from a SUN SPARC machine. >Problem is that whenever I try to run X (or indeed any other program) through >NFS the shell hangs, I can't kill off the process even with a -9. >I can do ls -Rl happily on the NFS mounted directory but a "file *" command >fails on the first or second file..... >Did these sort of problems exist with NFS prior to patchkit 0.2.2? >I noticed a good number of patches for NFS in the patchkit version 0.2.2. >Anyone got any ideas? >-- >Steve Owen I am running a 0.2.1 system, and am seeing similar problems. Just for reference, I am running over SLIP, with my MTU [on the BSD box] set at the standard 296. The terminal server I connect to claims it is using an MTU of 1536, but all works with the standard BSD MTU, except NFS [well, it works somewhat]. The problem I see is this: I can mount things fine, and even do an ls -laF without a problem, but trying to more any file on the remotely mounted volume causes my machine to visit la-la-land, and gives me frequent messages of the form "nfs server xxx.xxx.xxx:/blah timed out" on the console and in the log. When this happens I see [afterward] a large number of input errors on the slip connection, as reported by netstat -i. Any ideas?? As for thre SLIP MTU, when I recomplied my kernel with an MTU of 1536, all I got was collision reports from netstat -i. Should I even be seeing collisions with SLIP?? Isthere a way for me to up my MTU, since I cannot change the MTU that the campus terminal servers use? Thanks in advance, Rafal /------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Rafal Boni r-boni@uiuc.edu| |"Me have a .sig?? I don't even have a clue!" rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu| | -Anonymous rb6775@caffeine.cen.uiuc.edu| \------------------------------------------------------------------------/