[ILUG] NFS grrrr

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:12:25AM +0100, Stephen Shirley wrote:

> I have my home directory in another server nfs mounted into my home
> dir on my machine. However, my machine keeps frezzing up with the 
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> I've tried upgrading the kernel to 2.2.16 & 17, but no difference. Any
> ideas people?
On which machine did you upgrade the kernel - the client or the server ?
Linux is an OK NFS client but as of yet it's still not a great server. The
new in-kernel NFSD may lead to improvements but that's still WIP AFAIK,
although quite far advanced. I would read the log messages as indicating a
problem with the server (though I don't know about 'request slots')

> Ps. the remote machine, inlinux, is a redhat 6.1 machine, with the 2.2.12
> kernel.

See above remarks - it would be well worthwhile upgrading the kernel on the
server, if you can do that.




Regards,


Niall