Subject: Re: NFS problem.
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Johnny Billquist <johnny.billquist@softjar.se>
List: current-users
Date: 12/10/2005 00:24:41
Hmm, interesting, but weird.
I'll try.
But it's just writes that make it hang. Reads can go on all day without 
problems.
Wasn't there a problem in the past with large UDP packets and NFS? Maybe 
that's it. I think there is some parameter to play with for that.
I should check it out. Thanks for reminding me...

	Johnny

Matthias Scheler wrote:
> In article <439567A6.6070303@softjar.se>,
> 	Johnny Billquist <johnny.billquist@softjar.se> writes:
> 
>>When writing over NFS, the processes hang after a while.
> 
> 
> Is it perhaps talking to a much faster NFS server using UDP? My
> SPARCstation LX can easily unhappy when talking over a 10Mb/s interface
> to the 1000Mb/s NFS server via UDP. If I use NFS over TCP the problem
> goes away.
> 
> 	Kind regards
> 

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