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I was hoping someone could shed some light with some good
links, sample configurations, etc., that might help me
with the following. Not looking for someone to "fix it"
for me or anything like that. Maybe the following will show
that I have tried reading, googling, experimenting, etc.,
before asking. I don't want to have any settings too high
to cause other problems, just to change what's neccessary.
When I'd drag & drop files to copy from a windows xp box
to an nfs share on the obsd box, the obsd system would
reboot. I thought at first that it was either something
conflicting from the xp box, or that I had a hardware
problem on the obsd box. That had happened once with a
bad simm, but I had replaced it & had had no further
problems until now. Before running a time consuming
memory test on the obsd box, I did some reading on obsd
tunables, and am now able to copy a file over from the
xp box without the system rebooting. Below is a list of
the changes:
net.inet.tcp.keepinittime=600
net.inet.tcp.keepidle=28800
net.inet.tcp.keepintvl=600
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=32768
net.inet.udp.recvspace=83200
net.bpf.bufsize=65536
vfs.nfs.iothreads=4
Before the problem started occurring, I was using softupdates. I
tried running without them, thinking maybe that had some bearing on
the problem. Apparently it didn't. The only thing that helped was the
changes listed above. I read that if you increase the tcp.recvspace &
tcp.sendspace too high, you can cause a kernel panic when booting.
That hasn't happened so far, with the above values. Exactly how high
I can go without problems, I don't know. The obsd box is used for email
& learning, mostly. No high usage production server. The largest file
I've tried to copy to the nfs share since making the changes was about
26mb. No reboot this time. Before the changes, about the largest I could
copy without trouble was 2mb. Right now, I'm limited on memory. There's
only 256mb on the obsd box. That might be a problem, too, if I keep
increasing the above values. There is no problem with file sizes when
using scp across the network. Forgot to mention that I had tested it
too, by mounting an obsd nfs share over on a fbsd box & had tried to
copy a large file over, resulting in a reboot. That was when I figured
I had it narrowed down to hardware or an obsd settings problem, the
latter apparently being the case. Thanks for any answers & advice.
Below is output of uname -a & dmesg.
OpenBSD badboybox.cableone.net 3.8 GENERIC#0 i386
OpenBSD 3.8-stable (GENERIC) #0: Fri Dec 2 01:25:13 CST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 601 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
real mem = 267952128 (261672K)
avail mem = 237613056 (232044K)
using 3296 buffers containing 13500416 bytes (13184K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(a7) BIOS, date 01/31/02, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb4f0
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xb970
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdd90/144 (7 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 9 10 11
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("VIA VT82C596A ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT82C691 PCI" rev 0xc4
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT82C598 AGP" rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "VIA VT82C686 ISA" rev 0x22
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x10: ATA66, channel 0
configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD300BB-00AUA1>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 28629MB, 58633344 sectors
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <WDC WD400BB-00AUA1>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38166MB, 78165360 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HP, CD-Writer+ 9500b, 1.06> SCSI0 5/cdrom
removable
atapiscsi1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1
scsibus1 at atapiscsi1: 2 targets
cd1 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <ASUS, CD-S500/A, 1.0K> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
cd1(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x10: irq 9
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x10: irq 9
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
viaenv0 at pci0 dev 7 function 4 "VIA VT82C686 SMBus" rev 0x30
auvia0 at pci0 dev 7 function 5 "VIA VT82C686 AC97" rev 0x20: irq 5
ac97: codec id 0x83847644 (SigmaTel STAC9744/45)
ac97: codec features 18 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, SigmaTel 3D
audio0 at auvia0
fxp0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "Intel 82557" rev 0x08, i82559: irq 11, address
00:d0:b7:ba:15:09
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4
vga1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "3DFX Interactive Voodoo3" rev 0x01
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask e745 netmask ef45 ttymask ffc7
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
wd1: no disk label
dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
wsdisplay0: screen 6 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 7 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
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