nfs server issues

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 01), Sean McNeil said:
> I have googled and seen a great deal of talk about FreeBSD nfs client
> issues, but haven't seen anything about server problems.  I've now
> tried with a Solaris 2.7, HPUX 11.11, and 2 different Linux boxes and
> I get the same thing happening...
> 
> If I mount an nfs partition on any of the above mentioned machines,
> everything works fine until I try to copy a bunch of files over.  For
> instance, if I mount it at /mnt and do
> 
> cd /localdisk; (cd /mnt; tar cf - .) | tar xvf -
> 
> It will lock up hard.  Linux is saying
> 
> nfs: task xxxx can't get a request slot

"tcpdump -s0" output might help here, I think.  Do it from both
machines and make sure no packets are being dropped, and then check to
see what NFS request the client is trying to make that isn't getting
processed.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com