Re: 2.4.8 NFS Problems

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:42:24 +0200


>>>>> " " == Mike Black <mblack@csihq.com> writes:

> But my timeouts were only 10 seconds -- well below the timeo
> and retrans timeout periods. And my network traffic shows that

According to the 'nfs' manpage, the default timeo on the mount in
util-linux is usually 0.7 seconds. retrans is 3.

0.7 + 1.4 + 2.8 = 4.9 seconds < 10...

> this is the client causing the problem NOT the server. It's
> the read() that pauses for 10 seconds and then the NFS write
> immediately returns EIO. So...I don't think soft mounts has
> anything to do with it.

I think it does.

Cheers,
Trond
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