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> Well... it was in increase at the time I posted the patch.
> If remember correctly... there was actually some discussion
> that 1/30th of a second was a bit too long...
> 
> >You are setting the minimum timeout value at 1/30th of a second
> >instead of 1/10th of a second.
> >  
> >
> Right... I did miss this "minor" detail when I did the port....
> 
> >This might indeed explain why people are seeing an increase in resends
> >and 'server not responding' messages.
> >  
> >
> Most definitely... Here is the patch that should take care of the problem...
> 

Steve,
 Do you know if this change was in place when the 7.X kernels went from
2.4.18 to 2.4.20?

We started noticing a lot of nfs pain on udp connections when we went
from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 from rh's kernels.
(in addition to the kscand nightmare)

-sv




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