nfs server not responding / is alive again

[Bill Moran]

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > What kind of network topology is between the two machines?  Do you 
> > notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? 
> > You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to improve 
> > the problem as well.
> 
> My bad ... I thought i had mentioned it in the original ... the nfs mount 
> is from local machine to local machine, to do what nullfs normally would 
> provide were I to risk it ... namely, to get at the 'bottom layer' of a 
> unionfs based storage system ...

Well ... that's just weird.

I guess the same problem could apply: if the loopback slows down when the
kernel is loaded, it could cause the same effect.

Have you tried forcing TCP mounts?  IIRC, that's what solved the problem
for me.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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