NFS Question

[Derek D. Martin]

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At some point hitherto, pll at lanminds.com hath spake thusly:
> 
> In a message dated: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:43:23 EDT
> Rich Payne said:
> 
> >I can't speak for the server side (under any serious load), though 
> >I've heard it has improved.
> 
> It's better than it used to be, but still not overly great.  We saw 
> lots of unexplain[able,ed] errors at MCL on our NFS server. 

To be fair, we were using a RH 6.2 server with an old kernel while we
had most of the problems.  IIRC, I discovered just before I stopped
caring that the server's NICs were trying to auto-neg (though we put
options in the modules.conf file to prevent that, probably wrong), and
weren't negotiating the right speed/duplex.  That'll kill you every
time.

After we upgraded the kernel to 2.2.19, and upgraded to nfs-util
0.3.1, the majority of problems went away.  It was still slow, but
again I think that was due to a bad network connection issue.
We were using (actual genuine bonifide) Tulip chips with Cisco
switches; this combination of hardware is known to have issues with
autonegotiation, according to some post I found by Donald Becker
somewhere on some website.  :)

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