From: Dan Brunner <daniel.brunner@duni.com>
Subject: Re: nfs over tcp in linux kernel version 2.4.18
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 14:30:29 -0500
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Guolin,

That DOES sound like a pain in the a$$!!!!!!!

And yes your right, not everyone has the same success...

Good Luck!!


Dan


On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 02:19  PM, guolin@alexa.com wrote:

> Dan,
>
>  try your luck.
>
>  BTW, let you know that I have to take the pain to reboot 400 Linux 
> boxes to
> get rid of "nfs over tcp" in our production environment.
>
>  --Guolin Cheng
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Brunner [mailto:daniel.brunner@duni.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:14 PM
> To: Guolin Cheng
> Cc: davidmyer800@yahoo.com; nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [NFS] nfs over tcp in linux kernel version 2.4.18
>
>
> Guolin,
>
> I can't seem to agree with this...
>
> Maybe I don't have that many connections (17), but I've been running
> NFS over TCP since 2.4.18. And I haven't had once MAJOR crash yet!! My
> clients however, are all Mac OS X clients. 10.0.4-10.2.6.
>
> Maybe that has something to do with it....
>
>
> And we don't get a lot of hangs either....
>
>
> later
>
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 01:41  PM, guolin@alexa.com wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>>  "nfs over tcp" is terribly unstable until now, I use version 2.4.20,
>> and
>> find that over 30 simultaneous nfs connection can kill an "nfs over
>> tcp"
>> Linux nfs server easily. let clients' processes hangs there forever.
>> But
>> this didn't happen for Linux nfs server enabling only "nfs over udp".
>>
>>  So the best choice now is totally disregard Linux "nfs over tcp" in
>> production environment. just try it in research environment.
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>  --Guolin Cheng
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Myer [mailto:davidmyer800@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 11:03 AM
>> To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [NFS] nfs over tcp in linux kernel version 2.4.18
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone advise me if nfs server over tcp is
>> supported in 2.4.18 kernel version ? How to
>> setup/enable on both server/client side ? Tried to
>> looked at FAQ but information did not seem be there.
>>
>> Do I need to apply any patches ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> David
>>
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