i'm not sure but you should have the command mii-tool
- type it as root, what do you get ?
(for ref here is what I have here :
    genghis:~# mii-tool
    eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok)
- what about ifconfig output (type ifconfig <yourdev>)
- and finally what about mounts (type mount)

Stefan Funke wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:30:32 +0100
"Clawson, Simon" <simon_clawson@mentorg.com> wrote:

  
What version of Linux? If its 7.3, then do a search on NOW for
redhat 7.3+NFS. Its a known bug,a nd the RH Kernel needs upgrading
to fix it properly. 
    

All linux hosts run with linux kernel 2.4.18 - one with 2.4.19 (self
compiled kernel). The distribution itself is a SuSE8.0.



  
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Funke [mailto:bundy@arcor-ip.de]
Sent: 17 June 2003 10:15
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: netdiag / linux nfs over tcp


Hi all!

Is someone having a lot of linux clients mounted a toaster via nfs
over tcp? I have a mixed environment of linux, bsd and sunos
clients. When I run "netdiag" here the toaster finds all linux hosts
not to perform like they should:

Average size of NFS TCP packets received from host: foo
is 461. This is less than the MTU (1500 bytes) of the interface
involved in the data transfer.
The maximum segment size being used by TCP for this host is: 1460.
Low average size of packets received by this system might be
because of a misconfigured client system, or a poorly written
client application.

Is someone else seeing such output from netdiag? 

I'm trying to locate a performance problem only appearing on linux
hosts when the filer is under (heavy) load and a snapmirror proc
from a second toaster is started. All linux clients produce a load
up to 82 and start to freeze. Of course thats really not nice to
have - especially when other bsd/sunos hosts have no problems. 

Netapp itself can't help me - they say that the linux nfs drivers
are a pieace of crap and that they're working with linux developers
to fix that. (blah blah) Someone else ever had such problems? What
did you do?
    

  

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