Re: NFS server not responding

Trond Myklebust
2003-11-27T16:30:53Z

>>>>> " " == Douglas Furlong <douglas.furlong@firebox.com> writes:

> Good day all. I am running in to excessive amounts of NFS
> errors as below.

> kernel: nfs: server neon not responding, still trying kernel:
> nfs: server neon OK

Two suggestions:

1) Bump the number of threads on the server. 32 is probably a bit
low.

2) The value retrans=3 used as the default by the Linux 'mount'
program is rather low compared to that used on other OSes. I
suggest you bump it to at least 5 on all your clients.

Cheers,
Trond