kernel hanging problem - nfs?...

[jason andrade]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, nathan r. hruby wrote:

> > that they recommend increasing the socket read/write buffer size when
> > increasing the number of nfs daemons.  Did you do that on your
> > server(s)?

yes, i believe so.  as per a redhat recommendation for heavy use servers:

        echo 262143 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default
        echo 262143 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
        echo 262143 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default
        echo 262143 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
        daemon rpc.nfsd $RPCNFSDCOUNT
        echo 65536  > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default
        echo 131072 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
        echo 65536  > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default
        echo 131072 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max

> that's so friggin' odd.  I've been using the 2.4.19 kernel for a while as
> a NFS server with wr=8192 and it's just been super happy.  jason, are you
> using the Redhat kernels or vanilla kernels?

i am using the redhat kernels.

it hasn't really mattered as i have had this issue on every kernel since
redhat 7.0 (2.2.X) and i have never been able to successfully use a rsize
of > 1024.  i am now using rsize=1024 for most production things and
using tcp with a rsize of 4096 for servers that are more lightly loaded.

regards,

-jason