> Rick > Do you have more details on the issue is it 8.x only ? Can you point > us to the stable thread abourt this ? > The bug is in the krpc, which means it's 8.x specific (at least for NFS, I'm not sure if the nlm used the krpc in 7.x?).
David P. Discher reported a performance problem some time ago when testing the FreeBSD8 client against certain servers. (I can't find the thread, so maybe it never had a freebsd-stable@ cc after all.) Fortutnately John Gemignani spotted the cause (for at least his case, because he tested a patch that seemed to resolve the problem). The bug is basically that the client side krpc for TCP assumed that the 4 bytes of data that hold the length of the RPC message are in one mbuf and don't straddle multiple mbufs. If the 4 bytes does straddle multiple mbufs, the krpc gets a "garbage message length" and then typically wedges and eventually recovers by starting a fresh TCP connection up and retrying the outstanding RPCs. I have no idea if George is seeing the same problem, but the 1.5minute logjams suggest that it might. I emailed him a patch and, hopefully, he will report back on whether or not it helped. A patch for the above bug is "in the works" for head, rick _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
