-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, nate wrote:
> Lukas Kubin said: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm having troubles with the speed of nfs-user-server, when the number of > > computers booting root system from it exceeds the approximate number of > > 5--7. The lower number is quite fast. The boot procedure of Debian "base" > > then takes about 15 to 20 minutes (tested for 17 computers booting > > together). Is it a feature of NFS or is something going wrong? > > > > Details: > > 1. I boot kernel from floppy > > 2. this is the lilo's append: > > "rw nfsroot=CORRECT_IP_ADDRESS:/home/nfsroot,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 > > ip=::::::'dhcp'" > > 3. The system init executes just the items in rcS of Debian base system > > 4. I can't use the nfs-kernel-server since I couldn't access the > > server's mounted drives when tried it > > > any particular reason your using nfs-user-server over nfs-kernel-server? > just curious is all. Yes -- point #4 above. When I use the kernel server then the client can't see directories into that was mounted something on the server. Let's say I've mounted /dev/sdb1 as /home on the server. Then I can see the content of /home on the server but not on the client. > What kernel(on both client & server)? 2.4.18 on server and 2.4.19 to boot the client. > I use nfs-kernel-server so it may not apply but how many nfs processes > are you running? my /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server has this > line in it: > > RPCNFSDCOUNT=16 > # Number of servers to be started up by default > > > (I think I changed it from the default) > > I have noticed in my recent casual tests that the nfs server on > redhat 7.3 is much more solid then the one on debian 2.2. I don't > know if its the kernel(since the kernel runs the nfs server) or if > its the userspace stuff(since rpc.statd is what dies on me in debian, > it's a userspace program). But I've had rpc.statd die half dozen times > if not more in the past week, and the redhat box(7.3) hasn't so much > as hiccuped once. both servers only serve 2 clients, and only 1 client > is used at a time, both systems have over a gig of ram so load is nil. > linux isn't alone in having a buggy nfs. On solaris I came accross a > NFS bug that was documented in sun's bug database more then 5 years > ago and Sun still hasn't managed to fix it yet. It's a pretty bad > bug that takes down the entire NFS system(though not the OS). > > nate > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE9pDLk4TIZ2lmUAtsRAis4AJ42dieBlHB0x19DLM01n+i6Ey/SaQCfbNXB 20K62/Pq7P+6Bfi1XsbXSD4= =vn8Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
