At 03:01 PM 6/9/2008, Jeff Layton wrote: >On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:51:05 -0400 >"Talpey, Thomas" <Thomas.Talpey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> At 01:24 PM 6/9/2008, Jeff Layton wrote: >> > >> >"Be sure to wait for X minutes between failovers" >> >> At least one grace period. >> > >Actually, we have to wait until all of the sockets on the old server >time out. This is difficult to predict and can be quite long. I just gave the floor. The ceiling is yours. :-) Orphaned server TCP sockets, btw, in general last forever without keepalive. Even with keepalive, they can last many tens of minutes. Tom. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html