[2601] in SIPB bug reports
8k NFS packet problem? (was: Re: atalanta)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 16 11:24:48 1992
From: mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 11:24:00 EST
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From: mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU
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Subject: 8k NFS packet problem? (was: Re: atalanta)
In-Reply-To: [8175] in Hotline Meeting
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 10:47:50 EST
Joe: I believe I've come across a useful workaround for your problem
accessing AFS files through atalanta.
Earlier, I wrote:
>2) Running latex from a machine that accessed latex via an NFS mount
> of atalanta:/afs worked successfully about 10% of the time,
> otherwise it failed with one of a variety of "Undefined control
> sequence" errors, such as the one quoted above.
I was able to fix this problem (i.e., so that it now works
successfully all of the time) by redoing the NFS mount of atalanta
with rsize=1024 added to the options. The problem toggles off and on
consistently when I remount using, alternately, rsize=1024 and no
rsize option (it defaults to 8192, I think).
If this fixes the problem on astron, too, then I'd suspect there isn't
any (immediate) problem with atalanta.
Network people: although I'm sure we all deeply regret hosing the
network with 8k packets, and will never, ever, do it again, just out
of curiosity:
was anything changed Friday or Saturday that would have made
MITnet considerably less hospitable to large/fragmented packets?
Matt
