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- From: zingelman@adcalc.fnal.gov
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: workaround for kmem panic/hang w/NFS
- Keywords: NFS, panic, hang, fix
- Message-ID: <31AUG199208314403@europa.fnal.gov>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 14:31:00 GMT
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- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, AD/Controls
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- Here is a workaround that seems to fix problems with kmem panics and
- hangs while doing NFS... (it has worked for at least one other person)
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- mount using the options "-o rsize=4096,wsize=4096" (the defaults are 8192.)
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- Since doing this, we have not seen another panic! As a side effect, NFS
- seems to run faster!
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- This is our best guess, description of our system:
- a generic clone 80386 motherboard with an AMI MK-II AT BIOS,
- 8 meg of memory, 80387, Twinhead EGA card, WD1007A disk controller
- with 2 CDC Wren III ESDI drives, and a 3com Etherlink II card.
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- This is a list of patches we have applied:
- original 2nd drive patch
- MAX_KMAPENT increase patch
- bufpages = min(NKMEMCLUSTERS/2, bufpages) patch
- npx 0xf1 -> 0xb1 patch
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- "Tim Zingelman" <zingelman@adcalc.fnal.gov>
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