Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell Steffen <> | Subject | Re: Linux NFS Problem | Date | Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:12:40 -0500 (CDT) |
| |
> Dear All, > > I'm installing a NFS Boot Server for 65 Diskless Clients. > The problem is that after booting 40 PC's the other clients become to > receive errors like: > > NFS NOT RESPONDING STILL TRYING > NFS OK > > I'm using a Slackware version 3.0 of linux for the Boot Server and I'm using > the Bootpd 2.4 deamon. > > Does anybody have a similar installation ? > Do I have to use another version of RPC.NFSD ? > Is there a way of tuning the kernel for handling more than 40 users ?
It's quite possible that you've just overloaded your NFS server. The messages you are seeing are one symptom of an overloaded server that can't respond to client requests fast enough.
Russ -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Russ Steffen | | EMail: rsteffen@ia.net | +-------------------------------------------------------+
|  |