Re: NFS server not responding

Steve Dickson
2003-12-04T21:23:34Z

seth vidal wrote:

> Do you know if this change was in place when the 7.X kernels went from
>2.4.18 to 2.4.20?
>
>
No it was not...

In early kernels (i.e. pre 2.4.20) RPC_RTO_MIN is not relative to HZ
#define RPC_RTO_MIN (2)

which causes the min timeout to be too small (especially on ia64 archs).
So my patch (to the 2.4.20 kernels) made RPC_RTO_MIN relative to HZ
and increase the timeout a bit

#define RPC_RTO_MIN (HZ/30)

Trond's patch increases the min even more (which a good thing, imho)

#define RPC_RTO_MIN (HZ/10)

SteveD.