From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: NFS Crashes LTSP and NFS Servers and Corrupts Data! Need Help! Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:22:48 -0400 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3EEDE0C8.8010509@RedHat.com> References: <3EEA7890.3010902@lillecorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, redhat-list@RedHat.com, jrosen@lillecorp.com Return-path: To: Fanying Jen In-Reply-To: <3EEA7890.3010902@lillecorp.com> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Fanying Jen wrote: > NFS Problem 1 (Crashing) > > The LTSP would create stale locks and eventually the LTSP server > crashes. Furthermore, data is corrupted during the process. Is there any type of errors in /var/log/messages? When you say crashes what do you mean? The machine oops (in that case send the oops trace) or some part of LTSP drops core.... > NFS Problem 2 (Corruption) > > This happens mostly in OpenOffice, more than once, data gets corrupted > and when working with both Microsoft and native OpenOffice formats. On > full local workstations where the files are save to the local disk, > this does not happen. The office docuements are normally saved to an > NFS filesystem. Boy this is a bit bizarre..... What mount options are you using? > NFS Problem 3 (Performance) > > NFS is very slow over T1 and cable links but is just fine on the Local > Fast Ethernet. It is slow enough to either knock people off or cause > write errors. We are thinking the hubs play a major role and are > replacing with high end managed switches. However we believe that > there is more than meets the eye and the T1 also has something to do > with. Try using TCP over the T1 link and see if that helps.... SteveD. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs