Gees, I knew I should have left these boxes at OSF 1.3. They were
working just fine...
My problem now... Having just finished the installation and
configuration of 3.2D on a DEC 3000/400, I am now faced with a
ridiculously slow NFS client. This same box just two weeks ago had
decent NFS performance as a client to a Solaris 2.3 server. It
mounts 8 different FS's from that server. All FS's on all the
systems are UFS for portability reasons.
There's nobody else running anything on either the client or server,
as it is 2am and I just rebooted them both to make sure. For
crying out loud, my Sparc 2 and an identical Alpha running OSF 1.2
(that's not a typo. If it ain't broke, we generally don't fix it)
are currently running NFS circles around this crippled beast using
the same mounts from the server. I'm getting a bunch of "NFS2
server not responding" messages from this box at the same time a
Sparc 2 is getting reliable light to moderate service from that same
host and mount. Overload on the server just isn't feasible because
during the regular production day, about 15 clients are beating on
these same FS's with no problem at all. I've had no problems until
DU 3.2[CD]. I mention 3.2C also because another AlphaStation 250
4/266 is experiencing problems similar to this. Logins there take
about 2 minutes to complete. Its sort of languishing in a corner
until I can work on it.
I've checked the sanity and integrity of the network configuration
and the NFS configuration (without tuning any parameters from the
defaults). I've tried it with and without NFS locking on the client
side. I've currently got 7 nfsiod's running, which should be plenty
with quiescent systems and attempted heavy access on only one remote
mount.
Printing, mail, NTP, DNS, NIS, and LMF all seem to be working fine on
this box. Its late and I'm beyond frustration with this particular
incarnation of UNIX. What might I be missing here?
Thanks in advance,
Phil Antoine (antoine_at_RadOnc.Duke.EDU)
Duke University Medical Center
Radiation Oncology Physics
Durham, North Carolina USA
http://www.RadOnc.Duke.EDU/~antoine
Received on Thu Jan 18 1996 - 09:05:19 NZDT