Often experiencing nfs server foo:/bar: not responding

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:25:25PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > # ping -c100 -s1472 your.nfs.server
> > 
> > Run this when the machine is idle; and run it while you are exercising
> > the NFS server. Do you see any packet loss?
> 
> When experiencing "kernel: nfs server server:/files: not responding", I
> ran this suggest ping.  The results were:
> 
>     --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
>     100 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, 0% packet loss
>     round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.389/0.511/0.767/0.062 ms

OK, thanks. That's a rough and ready test for duplex mismatches and general
network flakiness, so I'd say it's more likely you have an NFS issue.

Regards,

Brian.