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In article <Frsqa6y2@cs.psu.edu>, ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
- In article <4456@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
- 
- Steve> I saw this about a year ago when a DECStation 3100 was an NFS client
- Steve> of an RT running AOS 4.3 10/88.  Now, I've got a Cayman GatorBox trying
- Steve> to use the same RT as an NFS server and the same error appears:
- 
- Steve> xdr_bytes: bad size FAILED
- 
- Steve> This appeared on the DS3100 only with large files being manipulated
- Steve> thru the server.  Similarly, on the Mac, large file copies on the Mac
- Steve> fail because of this.  I haven't yet found just how large the files
- Steve> have to be to cause this to fail.  Trivial size files (<3K) seem to
- Steve> work OK, whereas 700K files fail.
- 
- Steve> Has anyone investigated, more fully characterized and fixed this
- Steve> problem on the RT?
- 
- The RT's NFS implementation will only accept/generate transfers of 4Kb or
- less.  If you can get the GatorBox to restrict it's requests to 4Kb you
- should be OK.
- 
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- Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>/Voice: +1 814 863 1142/FAX: +1 814 865 3176

Steve has already indicated the solution: NFS_MAXDATA should be 8Kb. We had 
the same problems as Steve and with the new kernel everything works fine.


Werner H.P. Vogels

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