Subject: Re: network filesystem suggestions
To: Martijn van Buul <martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/17/2005 09:58:43
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Martijn van Buul wrote:

> However, if I use my (11b) WLAN (atu), it grinds to a halt. After a few
> minutes, the nfs mount will die ("file server 192.168.64.10:/usr/export not
> responding"), while the rest of networking continues working - including
> from and to 192.168.64.10 (Which just happens to be my desktop). I've read
> that NFS isn't very forgiving towards packet loss, so I'm thinking that it
> might be the underlying problem. I tried using nfs over tcp instead of udp,
> and it helps a little - but not enough.

 	You may want to reduce the read & write block sizes down to 1k
 	or so -  (mount -o -r=1024,-w=1024). See mount_nfs(8) for more
 	details.

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