In message <200212180000.gBI00Tk23476@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writes
:
>In message <20021217233141.GD19317@deathmitten.example.org>, John Franklin wri
>>Unless you've changed it in your kernel config file (options BUFCACHE),
>>then it is 5% of total memory.  Your NFS server may be trying to get
>>enough bufs to stat the inodes and create the NFS request cache.

>Exceptionally likely-sounding!  I will look at this.

Nope, it's just mundane packet loss.  For some reason, about half of all
mount attempts just get lost.  If I run tcpdump on both ends, when the
mount fails, the client sends two packets right away, and two more a while
later, and none of them get through to the other side.  It doesn't appear
to ever recover - but if I restart it, it sometimes works.

No packets other than NFS mount and unmount requests are staying lost.
*sigh*.

It appears that "mount_nfs -T" still implies udp for the mount protocol
itself.  I don't suppose there's a way to override this?

-s