On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:51:01PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> [...]
> 
> There's no reason I can think of why NFS (in particular, as opposed to the
> traffic patterns it generates) would work better or worse over one kind of
> (approximately) 10Mbps medium than any other (it isn't as if the drivers
> or hardware care one way or the other).   Of course, hanging NFS mounts

It can, because NFS over UDP will send busrt of data, and this burst if
of constant size. If a hardware on the path can't handle the burst (not
enouth buffers), the mount hang as NFS will send the same burst over and
over.
NFS over TCP work better in such situations, because TCP will find the burst
can't be transmitted on the network and will resize its window.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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