[oclug] monitoring nfs

[Greg Franks]

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Kenzie <kenziem at sympatico.ca> writes:
    Mike> I do have access to both side and the transfer is all one
    Mike> way, from the faster 266 PII ----> the 486 sx.  Looking at
    Mike> the logs on both sides and they are full of timeouts.

If you're dropping packets (timing out), NFS will not be very happy at
all.  Stock NFS (V2) is using UDP, so it implements its own timeout
mechanism.  Try switching to NFS V3 with TCP to see if things improve.

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