From: Olaf Kirch Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add /proc/sys/fs/nfs sysctls to nfsd module Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 22:06:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20060804200657.GC29852@suse.de> References: <20060803110538.GA17173@suse.de> <76bd70e30608030952p15e1500cy191b5ef19241b58e@mail.gmail.com> <1154680981.21040.2415.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com> <1154705797.4727.18.camel@localhost> <20060804175232.GA29852@suse.de> <1154715807.4727.30.camel@localhost> <44D39D18.7080907@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Greg Banks , Chuck Lever , Linux NFS Mailing List , Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G95wt-0001tV-1w for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:07:11 -0700 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1G95ws-00038s-0P for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:07:11 -0700 To: Peter Staubach In-Reply-To: <44D39D18.7080907@redhat.com> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:16:40PM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: > The two fields were intended to be used to reduce the overhead on > the server by passing a hint for the amount of data that the client > was actually looking for and then a count for the maximum sized response > that it was prepared to handle. > > Solaris probably uses something like 1048/32768 or 8192/32768, doesn't > it? I don't remember the values, all I know was that it got stuck in READDIRPLUS, repeating the same call over and over again. And it can't have been that many directory entries (definitely not in the thousands), and IIRC we didn't hit the maxcount limit. Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play okir@suse.de | / | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah kin.ir.samse.qurax ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs