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From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
Subject: Re: 386BSD: 16550's vs. NFS
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:25:59 GMT
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>> 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.

>It can alos help to reduce the block sizes.
>And radically bloat the attribute cache expirations.

.... and use ppp or nfs over TCP or turn on UDP checksums ... you might 
loose big with NFS otherwise, even with MNP4/V.42!

\Bernhard.
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