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Subject: Re: NFS serer weirdness
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On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:35:31AM +0100, Matt Douhan wrote:
> The problem is as follows
> 9:34am mdouhan @ [mandarin] ~ > tail /var/log/messages
> again
> Dec 20 22:04:24 mandarin /kernel: nfs server rabarber:/net/rabarber: not 
> responding
> Dec 20 22:04:38 mandarin /kernel: nfs server rabarber:/net/rabarber: not 
> responding
> Dec 20 22:05:48 mandarin last message repeated 2 times
> Dec 20 22:06:04 mandarin /kernel: nfs server rabarber:/net/rabarber: is alive 
> again
> Dec 20 22:06:04 mandarin last message repeated 3 times
> 9:34am mdouhan @ [mandarin] ~ >
> 
> All machines mounting NFS systems are seing these errors in the log, and it is 
> very annoying, anyone have any idea why this is?
> 
> Regards

	This is an historical problem with dynamic retransmit
estimator. There is previous disscussion about this in the archives.
If everything is working OK you can ignore the messages or
mount with -d. see man 8 mount_nfs.

	-steve