Subject: Solved: Nfs stalls on 1.3.1/i386
To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
From: Anders Eriksson <aer@cdt.luth.se>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/04/1998 21:07:27
Hi again,

Adding -T to the mount did the trick, thanks a lot to all who replied.

/Anders
 
You wrote:
> aer@cdt.luth.se (Anders Eriksson) writes:
> 
> >From times to times filesystem just hangs solid. Any shells to other machine
> s
> >continues to work so the basic networking in the client is functioning. All
> >tries to access the nfs mounted /home hangs the shell in question.
> 
> That sounds like your NICs can't cope with back-to-back packets.
> Have you tried reducing the read and write size to 1KB or using TCP mounts?
> 
> Also, you didn't say which machine is the server.
> 
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