[TriLUG] NFS woes

[Jason Tower]

the redhat press book says that message occurs when client attempts to contact 
the server timeout.  it suggests that the root problem is usually network 
related.  my hunch is that it may be a ethernet issue, incorrect speed and/or 
duplex settings.  are you using 3Com nics?  they have frequently caused me 
grief by having weird/difficult to troubleshoot problems.  furthermore, i had 
problems with NFS on RH73 like frequent timeouts, very slow start/stop times 
(like ten minutes to execute 'service nfs start') and so on.  RH72 and RH80 
have been flawless with NFS though.  maybe try the latest RPM package?

jason

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:43, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble with the NFS. I get messages that say:
>
> nfs: task can't get a request slot
>
> When I get this messages, the nfs connection is unusable. The worst part
> is that home directories are served with this NFS connection!!!
>
> I've seen on Kernel list that this is an I/O problem or something to do
> with network card configuration.
> http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2001/week49/0468.h
>tml http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0101.1/0024.html
>
> Do you guys have ever seen something like this? Have you ever solved
> this?
>
> The NFS server:
>
> Red Hat Linux 7.3 up to date
> 2.4.18-3 #1 i686 unknown
> nfs-utils-0.3.3-5
> P-4 1.7 GHz
> 256 MB RAM
> Pelnty of disk space on exported  directories and on /var/log
> load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
> Mem:   255780K av,  247976K used,    7804K free,       0K shrd,   57652K
> buff
> Swap: 1050800K av,   17916K used, 1032884K free                  111508K
> cached
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
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