re: high load, no bottleneck

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> > I tried moving a client NFS mount to async. The result is that the
> > server never sees a filesync again from that client. 
> 
> Further testing shows that server with -o log / client with -o async has
> no performance problem.  OTOH, the client sometimes complain about write
> errors. -o async seems dangerous.

-o async is very dangerous.  there's not even the vaguest
guarantee that even fsck can help you after a crash in
that case...


.mrg.