Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:39:14 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x |
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Trond Myklebust wrote: > > In other words, with adaptive rtt the concept of "retrans" being a > > fixed number is fundamentally flawed -- unless it's also accompanied > > by a minimum timeout time. You'd need a retrans value of 20 or so for > > the above perfectly normal LAN situation, but then that's far too > > large on other occasions with other networks or servers. > > At that point, it makes sense to drop the entire "retrans+timeo" > paradigm, and just state that soft timeouts take a single parameter > ("timeo") that determines the timeout value.
I agree. 30 seconds seems like a good default.
> That's something that is dead easy to do...
I'll test a patch for 2.6.5 if you provide one.
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