Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:03:55 -0400 | Subject | Re: SMP locks up when NFS times out | From | Lee Hetherington <> |
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Alan Cox writes: | NFS really requires you set the wsize/rsize to a multiple of the block size | of the target device. (ie for Linux servers multiple of 1K, for SunOS and | Alpha multiple of 8K, for *BSD multiple of 4K).
I would love to use 8k blocks, but with rsize=8192 my SMP freezes almost instantly. Someone mentioned that at rsize >= 4096 some asynchronous RPC component of the kernel becomes involved.
| Intriguing. It won't lock up on me either way (including hard mounts). One | thing 4K blocks does do is make it less likely you will have free pages when | you need them. Nothing should break (in theory ;)) because of that and Im | guessing like most SMP users you have a ton of RAM ?
It won't lock up on you with hard and rsize >= 4096?
Yes, one DELL has 128MB, the other 144MB.
Lee Hetherington ilh@lcs.mit.edu
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