From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: Massive NFS problems on large cluster with large number of
	mounts
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:08:35 -0400
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:04:36PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:31 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:00:21PM +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> > > Any hint for us how we shall proceed and maybe force the clients to also
> > > use ports > 1023? I think that would solve our problems.
> > 
> > I think the below (untested) would tell the client to stop demanding a
> > privileged port.
> 
> Alternatively, just change the values of /proc/sys/sunrpc/min_resvport
> and /proc/sys/sunrpc/max_resvport to whatever range of ports you
> actually want to use.

Whoops, yes, I missed those, thanks.

--b.