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Re: PostgreSQL, NetBSD and NFS

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, current-users@netbsd.org
Date: 2003-02-05T17:18:29Z
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"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:49, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wonder if it is possible that, every so often,
>> you are losing just the last few bytes of an NFS transfer?

> Yah, that's kind of what it looked like when I tried this before
> Christmas too although the actual errors differd.

The observed behavior could vary wildly depending on what data happened to
get "read".

Wild thought here: can you reduce the MTU on the LAN linking the NFS
server to the NetBSD box?  If so, does it help?

			regards, tom lane