From: Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@studentenwerk.mhn.de>
Subject: Re: problems with lockd in 2.6.22.6
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 03:01:06 +0200
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On Friday 07 September 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:49:55PM +0200, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> > 2) The number of nfsd threads we are running on the machine is 1024. So =

this is not
> > the problem.
> =

> Wow, 1024? How many clients do you have? I'd normally assume 16 or 32 or
> something was a reasonable value...
> =


We have about 200 clients.

When we installed it several years ago (with kernel 2.4 and with udp) I =

doubled the number of threads every two weeks till there were no stalls =

(client side) in the morning any more. This was with 512 threads. I didn't =

notice any disadvantages, so I doubled it again.

When switching to 2.6 and tcp I just left it unchanged.

Regards,
-- =

Wolfgang Walter
Studentenwerk M=FCnchen
Anstalt des =F6ffentlichen Rechts

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