Re: ns83820 bug. [was Re: Poor NFS client performance on 2.4.18?]

Benjamin LaHaise
2002-05-08T22:07:10Z

Upgrade to 0.17 (which is in 2.4.19-pre5 or so and later) and you should
find the issue resolved.

-ben

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:19:03PM -0500, Dan Yocum wrote:
> Trond, et al.
>
> You're right, it's a driver (ns83820) issue. Strange that it only shows up
> when trying to execute an app that's mounted via NFS, but, whatever.
> Running apps from the the NFS volumes with the eepro100 adapter that's on
> the machine works fine with the updated NFS_all patch applied.
>
> Thanks, again,
> Dan
>
>
> Dan Yocum wrote:
> >
> > Dan Yocum wrote:
> > >
> > > Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tuesday 7. May 2002 00:05, Dan Yocum wrote:
> > > > > Trond,
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, so backing out the rpc_tweaks dif fixed the performance problem,
> > > > > however, seems to have introduced another problem that appears to be
> > > > > stemming from the seekdir.dif. Attempting to run an app from an IRIX
> > > > > client (that has the 32bitclients option set) freezes the NFS volume - one
> > > > > can't access it from the Linux side, anymore.
> > > > >
> > > > > You can read and write to the NFS volume *before* trying to run something
> > > > > from there, but not after.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ideas?
> > > >
> > > > That smells like another network driver bug. Have you tcpdumped the traffic
> > > > between client and server?
> > >
> > > Ah, that may be the case - the problem also exists with a Linux server as
> > > well... let me check, and I'll let you know.
> >
> > I take that back - it's only hanging on the Linux server when the IRIX
> > server is already hung.
>
>
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> Dan Yocum
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