[Nottingham] Odd behaviour in KDE

Lee nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Aug 18 20:57:02 2003


hmm, your stats seems to show lots of ip fragments being sent/received,
do you have a weird mtu or something?  probably nothing to do with it,
but strange perhaps? 

Laters,
Lee

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 20:29, Iain Lennon wrote:
> All my packages come from the 9.1 Mandrake
> Both Office comp and server have these packages:
> nfs-utils-1.0.1-1mdk
> nfs-utils-clients-1.0.1-1mdk
> portmap 4.0-20mdk (up and running)
> 
> Tried this in Gnome, and got an I/O error at the same file size, but was able 
> to complete uploading of the file after retrying
> 
> Apologies for the long reports, I'm not up to interpreting this info: its 
> outside my limited networking understanding!!
> 
> Hope anyone has some ideas. I'll post any other log sections which people 
> might find helpful
> 
> Server netstat-s report
> Ip:
>     1923961 total packets received
>     184 forwarded
>     0 incoming packets discarded
>     1694051 incoming packets delivered
>     1704273 requests sent out
>     220 fragments dropped after timeout
>     2039526 reassemblies required
>     343627 packets reassembled ok
>     220 packet reassembles failed
>     303371 fragments received ok
>     3595184 fragments created
> Icmp:
>     5245 ICMP messages received
>     0 input ICMP message failed.
>     ICMP input histogram:
>         destination unreachable: 2239
>         timeout in transit: 2828
>         echo requests: 178
>     950 ICMP messages sent
>     0 ICMP messages failed
>     ICMP output histogram:
>         destination unreachable: 772
>         echo replies: 178
> Tcp:
>     9120 active connections openings
>     5997 passive connection openings
>     0 failed connection attempts
>     0 connection resets received
>     11 connections established
>     616043 segments received
>     630237 segments send out
>     5551 segments retransmited
>     0 bad segments received.
>     1909 resets sent
> Udp:
>     1079628 packets received
>     734 packets to unknown port received.
>     0 packet receive errors
>     1073168 packets sent
> TcpExt:
>     3 resets received for embryonic SYN_RECV sockets
>     2 packets pruned from receive queue because of socket buffer overrun
>     ArpFilter: 0
>     7415 TCP sockets finished time wait in fast timer
>     1 time wait sockets recycled by time stamp
>     16 packets rejects in established connections because of timestamp
>     10367 delayed acks sent
>     14 delayed acks further delayed because of locked socket
>     Quick ack mode was activated 227 times
>     12735 packets directly queued to recvmsg prequeue.
>     53804 packets directly received from backlog
>     8541491 packets directly received from prequeue
>     209982 packets header predicted
>     10502 packets header predicted and directly queued to user
>     TCPPureAcks: 44475
>     TCPHPAcks: 187071
>     TCPRenoRecovery: 0
>     TCPSackRecovery: 765
>     TCPSACKReneging: 0
>     TCPFACKReorder: 0
>     TCPSACKReorder: 0
>     TCPRenoReorder: 0
>     TCPTSReorder: 0
>     TCPFullUndo: 0
>     TCPPartialUndo: 0
>     TCPDSACKUndo: 0
>     TCPLossUndo: 161
>     TCPLoss: 600
>     TCPLostRetransmit: 0
>     TCPRenoFailures: 0
>     TCPSackFailures: 316
>     TCPLossFailures: 2
>     TCPFastRetrans: 772
>     TCPForwardRetrans: 18
>     TCPSlowStartRetrans: 17
>     TCPTimeouts: 1168
>     TCPRenoRecoveryFail: 0
>     TCPSackRecoveryFail: 85
>     TCPSchedulerFailed: 9
>     TCPRcvCollapsed: 71
>     TCPDSACKOldSent: 190
>     TCPDSACKOfoSent: 0
>     TCPDSACKRecv: 51
>     TCPDSACKOfoRecv: 0
>     TCPAbortOnSyn: 0
>     TCPAbortOnData: 122
>     TCPAbortOnClose: 9
>     TCPAbortOnMemory: 0
>     TCPAbortOnTimeout: 674
>     TCPAbortOnLinger: 0
>     TCPAbortFailed: 0
>     TCPMemoryPressures: 0
> 
> Server nfsstat
> erver rpc stats:
> calls      badcalls   badauth    badclnt    xdrcall
> 1053765    0          0          0          0
> Server nfs v2:
> null       getattr    setattr    root       lookup     readlink
> 1      100% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> read       wrcache    write      create     remove     rename
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> link       symlink    mkdir      rmdir      readdir    fsstat
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> 
> Server nfs v3:
> null       getattr    setattr    lookup     access     readlink
> 1       0% 666957 63% 95      0% 39909   3% 227     0% 4       0%
> read       write      create     mkdir      symlink    mknod
> 304111 28% 40279   3% 321     0% 27      0% 0       0% 0       0%
> remove     rmdir      rename     link       readdir    readdirplus
> 13      0% 0       0% 42      0% 0       0% 929     0% 0       0%
> fsstat     fsinfo     pathconf   commit
> 111     0% 111     0% 0       0% 627     0%
> 
> Client rpc stats:
> calls      retrans    authrefrsh
> 0          0          0
> Client nfs v2:
> null       getattr    setattr    root       lookup     readlink
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> read       wrcache    write      create     remove     rename
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> link       symlink    mkdir      rmdir      readdir    fsstat
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> 
> Client nfs v3:
> null       getattr    setattr    lookup     access     readlink
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> read       write      create     mkdir      symlink    mknod
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> remove     rmdir      rename     link       readdir    readdirplus
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> fsstat     fsinfo     pathconf   commit
> 0       0% 0       0% 0       0% 0       0%
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday 18 Aug 2003 17:38, Lee wrote:
> > hmm, I'd check nfs version on both client and server, portmapper too,
> > and rpc stuff, check out some info form nfsstat too, that can shed light
> > on problem, netstat -s , is that giving you any info too??
> >
> > I'd check the nfs server , c if it's choking  on something???
> >
> > Laters,
> > Lee
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 17:42, Iain Lennon wrote:
> > > All transfers are truncated at 1081344 bytes in length: just an
> > > observation The mount is under NFS.
> > >
> > > It seems to be an upload only problem (I've now noted the same thing from
> > > my laptop to the server over a PCMCIA wireless link)
> > > The devices involved are PCMCIA (ZoomAir 4105) on server and laptop and
> > > USB (Belkin F5D6050) on my office machine
> > >
> > >
> > > Drivers are wlan-ng 0.2.0-pre10 for the zoom card, and the ATMEL driver
> > > for the belkin
> > > Can't see any untoward activity in /var/log/syslog on either client or
> > > server side
> > >
> > > iwconfig reports signal level 17 and link quality 100 on the ATMEL
> > > device. wireless-tools are not theat reliable with wlan-ng so I haven't
> > > installed them!
> > >
> > > ssh transfers (using gftp as client) and transfers over to the samba
> > > server are not curtailed in any way. (for my sins I run win4lin on my
> > > office box, which accesses the server via samba: a 7mb transfer worked
> > > well)
> > >
> > > It seems like a protocol thing.
> > > I'm off to see if I can replicate this in Gnome, but hope this extra info
> > > helps
> > >
> > > Iain
> > >
> > > On Monday 18 Aug 2003 16:59, Lee wrote:
> > > > are you getting any other errorlog output, from samba/nfs
> > > >
> > > > is that mount an nfs mount, or samba mount or something else??
> > > >
> > > > check out /var/log/* or dmesg..have a snoop around, i dunno where the
> > > > kde shell sticks it output , if you run an instance of the file
> > > > explorer from an xterm, you might seem some extended error reporting?
> > > >
> > > > do you have any per use quota's enabled?
> > > >
> > > > post your error logs here..might shed some light on the subject.
> > > >
> > > > what kind of usb device are you using, I'd like to know?
> > > >
> > > > what's you signal strength like, and do you have a good connection to
> > > > your access point?
> > > >
> > > > Laters,
> > > > Lee
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 09:56, Iain Lennon wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I've noticed a problem with file copying in KDE which I think is
> > > > > probably due to my wireless network, but I'm looking for confirmation
> > > > > before I hit the mailing lists again.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using Mandrake 9.1
> > > > > My workhorse computer has a bekin wireless USB device, detected by
> > > > > the kernel, and with the help of a bash script in rc.d configures on
> > > > > boot up to talk to my server using a prism2 based PCMCIA card.
> > > > >
> > > > > Copying files of more than approx .5 Mb using KDE leads to an error
> > > > > "could not write to /mnt/multimedia/file...." with cancel / skip
> > > > > /autoskip options.
> > > > >
> > > > > However, so long as the file is less than 1mb pressing skip / auto
> > > > > skip will see the file written. If it is greater than 1MB its
> > > > > truncated.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sending the file via gftp to the server using ssh is trouble free.
> > > > > Downloading files using KDE works without error
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thoughts?
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Iain Lennon
> > > > >
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