I actually had the exact same problem once a while ago, and after tweaking every possible setting on the machines, I switched the hub they were using. That fixed the issue.
I'm certain that that was the first thing you checked :) If not, try switching not only the hub/switch but also the cables. Failing that, there might be a nic issue on one machine or the other. On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:53:39AM -0700, Anthony Lau wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working on this problem for about week now. > I have a SMC Barricade with a K7 running Debian testing/ > unstable 2.4.9 as an NFS client. The NFS server is a PPC > 200MHz 604e running Debian testing/unstable 2.4.9 and is > also on the Barricade. The K7 has 100Mb Netgear311 card, > the PPC has a 10Mb old Farallon. > > NFS mounts take about 15 seconds, slight lag with commands, > but extremely bad throughput. I can barely play a 192Kb OGG > file without rebuffering. Transfer rates vary wildly from > a few bytes/sec to about 300KB/sec. With scp over SSH, I > get 1.2MB/s. > > I've read over the NFS-Howto and tried all the tips that seem > to apply. > > Neither IPchains or IPtables are being used on either machine > so it is not a TCP fragment thing. Portsentry is running on > the client. > > I have tried setting rsize/wsize=1024, 2048, and 8192 with > the same results. > > >From the client kern.log: > Sep 6 02:03:09 yggdrasil kernel: nfs: server 192.168.64.115 not responding, > still trying > Sep 6 02:03:09 yggdrasil kernel: nfs: server 192.168.64.115 OK > Sep 6 02:13:18 yggdrasil kernel: nfs: server 192.168.64.115 not responding, > still trying > Sep 6 02:13:20 yggdrasil kernel: nfs: server 192.168.64.115 OK > Sep 6 02:13:47 yggdrasil kernel: nfs: server 192.168.64.115 not responding, > still trying > Sep 6 02:13:47 yggdrasil kernel: nfs: server 192.168.64.115 OK > > >From the server kern.log: > Sep 6 00:52:05 nolandia kernel: eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good. > Sep 6 00:52:36 nolandia last message repeated 420 times > Sep 6 00:53:36 nolandia last message repeated 777 times > Sep 6 00:54:03 nolandia last message repeated 349 times > > These logs look wierd, but this is the first time I've > setup NFS. > > nfsstat shows the client having about 5% packet retrans. > > Having NFS working would be nice, but I could settle for > the hassle of scp/SSH since the throughput is about 60X > better! > > Any help would be appreciated, > > -- > Anthony Lau > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Adam McDaniel Infrastructure Technology Consultant M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.
