[1181] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Problems with NFS timeouts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Dec 24 01:09:34 1997
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, athena-rcc@MIT.EDU, ezra@MIT.EDU,
f_l@MIT.EDU, haldane@MIT.EDU, jf@MIT.EDU, karen@MIT.EDU,
mbwall@MIT.EDU, mshiffer@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU,
ops@MIT.EDU, phils@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU, takehiko@MIT.EDU,
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Dec 1997 19:59:05 EST."
<199712240059.TAA16945@mansard.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 01:09:27 EST
> Today Karen Walrath and I went over to the electronic classroom in 1-115 to
> test Jonathon Weiss's suggestion to increase the 'timeo' mount parameter from
> Athena's default 8 tenths of a second to the Solaris default of 100. With
> timeo=8, we had numerous timeouts--by now a routine occurrence. When we tried
> timeo=100, we found that all our NFS timeout problems disappeared.
I'm glad to hear that that is working for you. In related news, an
actual fix for the bug is due in a patch release planned for January.
This is a client side fix (ie. it is necessary for the client
workstations to take the patch, but not for the server to do so.)
Jonathon
