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From: bvs@BitBlocks.COM (Bakul Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: 386BSD: 16550's vs. NFS
Message-ID: <1992Aug9.083431.5746@BitBlocks.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 92 08:34:31 GMT
References: <EICHIN.92Aug9004425@tsx-11.mit.edu>
Organization: Bit Blocks, Inc.
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eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) writes:

>	Now, at 38400bps I got "133480 bytes sent in 34 seconds (3.9
>Kbytes/s)" from ftp over SLIP, with no silo errors during the transfer
>(with xntpd running as well.) So I tried doing some ls'es over NFS,
>which had given me problems before. Small directories went fine; I hit
>a large one and lost... *no* silo errors, the packets are making it to
>the machine cleanly -- but I'm still getting NFS timeouts. (The
>breakout box shows only intermittent traffic up to the point of the
>timeout.)

Try increasing the timeout value for nfs mounts.  Something like

	mount -t nfs -o timeo=T ... remote-dir mount-point

where # is timeout value in 0.1 sec intervals.

Bakul Shah <bvs@bitblocks.com>