From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: Typo in Redhat 8/9 nfs start/stop script Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:19:53 -0400 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3EF841E9.1050408@RedHat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from host-64-179-20-100.man.choiceone.net ([64.179.20.100] helo=Odyssey.Home.4Dicksons.Org) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19UmmO-0000LC-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 05:20:08 -0700 To: pwitting@Cyveillance.com In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: pwitting@Cyveillance.com wrote: >You may want to do more than that. RH9 is using 2.4.20 kernel, which by my >understanding resets the values to what I thinks is reasonable. For details >on how 2.4.20 calculates queue sizes, see this earlier post by Neil Brown: > >http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4229482 > >But the gist is, there is no longer any need for the startup script to reset >these values unless RH has disabled this feature of the kernel nfs code. > Good point... That QS stuff probably should be removed... >Secondly, it might be wise to automatically install a /etc/sysconfig/nfs >file. The script reads this file, but there's no default included, only be >reading and understanding the script would a user find out that this is now >the preferred way to change the thread count. > I kinda like it the way it is.... I don't want to make it too easy for people to shoot themselves in the foot.... :-) Making people read/understand the script before changing it seems to me like a good idea... >Finally, why not release an erratum that corrects the problem instead of >forcing any upgrade to RH10? It would be nice if I didn't have to add >functions to my Kickstart post-install script to correct this problem, and >instead could just upgrade the RPM in my install directory. > You don't have to upgrade the RH10 to get these changes... just upgrade the nfs-utils package... SteveD. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs