Justin Shaffer <shafferj@mac.com> wrote in message news:<250920031509103588%shafferj@mac.com>...
> Hi All,
>
> We've been seeing some weirdness on one of our nfs clusters with
> gigabit interfaces for the public network connections. The machines are
> 4500s (so we have sbug ge cards) on solaris 8 108528-18. Under a
> certain amount of load, we begin to see input errors accumulate a
> significant ratio to successful packets reflected via netstat -i on the
> nfs server. We dont see any evidence of the issue on our switches. The
> curious bit is, we've changed cables/switch ports/etc. with no luck. If
> i fail over the resource group to another node in the cluster - the
> errors follow the load. I'm wondering if it could be a bogus nfs client
> (all clients are running 108528-18 as well). Average throughput on the
> interfaces is about 5 mb/sec when this begins to occur, but can be even
> lower. When there is much more limited nfs traffic, the errors don't
> occur at all. Any ideas?
>
> tia - justin

Hey,

is this sun cluster 3.0? You have many NFS-Directorys? Try ha-nfs+ (plus),
a SUN addon to the cluster, it is for heavy loaded NFS-Services.

CU
Klaus Grote