From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: VDR User <user.vdr@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with rpcbind
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:37:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5074B53A.3030207@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA7C2qjRPs3pb66s2HDJqEyn0yGfGS_88+yvJNo0fhFQ9M6S3g@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/10/12 12:47, VDR User wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Per Aníbal Salazar, I'm sending this to the nfs mailing list..
>>>
>>> ==========
>>>
>>> Hi. I would like to know who I can talk to about having the rpcbind's
>>> timeout value settable on the command line by the user. In many cases
>>> the timeout is too long, requiring hackish solutions. It would be
>>> best, and makes sense, that the user should be able to set the timeout
>>> to something other than the default value if he chooses. If you could
>>> direct me to the right person to talk to about it, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> What timeout are you referring to? The one given to poll()?
>
> Hi. I guess so but not really sure. I'm talking about the timeout that
> happens when rpcbind is waiting for a response. Sounds like poll()
> could be it. We have an nfs server on .100 and the response happens
> immediately.
>
> $ rpcinfo -t 192.168.1.100 nfs
> program 100003 version 2 ready and waiting
> program 100003 version 3 ready and waiting
> program 100003 version 4 ready and waiting
>
> but there's no server on say .101 so if we run the same command on
> that ip, the timeout takes a very long time. It's this timeout that
> should be user-definable on the command line in my opinion. Any
> thoughts about it?
Hmm... I'm guess that is the 7min tcp connect time out cause by
the -t option... Try using -u instead of -t... Basically using
UDP instead of TCP... In general I would never recommend that
but in this particular case it might help...
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-09 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-05 15:09 Problem with rpcbind VDR User
2012-10-08 10:58 ` Steve Dickson
2012-10-08 16:47 ` VDR User
2012-10-09 23:37 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2012-10-10 2:49 ` VDR User
2012-10-11 13:23 ` Steve Dickson
2012-10-11 15:02 ` VDR User
2012-10-15 20:28 ` Steve Dickson
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