From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 12:46:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web13103.mail.yahoo.com (web13103.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B09B37B71A for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:46:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scurry505@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010321204234.34297.qmail@web13103.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [198.95.226.224] by web13103.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:42:34 PST Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:42:34 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Curry Subject: Re: NFS performance tweaking To: "Hartmann, O." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hartmann, It could be your timeout settings, but then again I don't *really* know whats going on at your site (maybe network issues?). I would recommend the "Managing NFS and NIS" from O'Reilly. It was published back in 1991 but it's still jam packed with good information. It even has a chapter on checking performance and tweaking, so it sounds as if it would be a good fit for you. My 2 cents, Steve Curry Technical Yahoo Yahoo, Inc. --- "Hartmann, O." wrote: > > Dear Sirs. > > Our main NFS server fails very often in serving fast > enough its > services and on several clients I get the message > "nfs server not > responding", later "... live again". > > Sometimes the server is really under heavy loead, > sometimes not. > I think it is a task of "tweaking", I saw a lot of > stuff in the kernel > and via sysctl -A in the kernel paramameters. > > Does anyone has a suitable hint waht to set for > these parameters > (prefereable in the kernel ...)? > > Thanks a lot ... > > Oliver > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der > Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der > Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message