Often experiencing nfs server foo:/bar: not responding

Tue Jun 20 14:20:27 UTC 2006

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:42:29PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> I am getting these errors all the time now (now being -CURRENT newer than
> Dec'05-Jan'06 time frame).  Are there some known issues in UDP or NFS
> serving since then?  This is on a virtually zero loaded 100Mbit network.
> Both the NFS server and client are FreeBSD-CURRENT systems.
> 
> I can trivially trigger this on all my FreeBSD-CURRENT NFS clients,
> simply by exiting Vim.  Did something change sometime in 2006 that would
> affect the default NFS mounts?

# ping -c100 -s1472 your.nfs.server

Run this when the machine is idle; and run it while you are exercising the
NFS server. Do you see any packet loss?