On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Andrew Klaassen wrote: > I have, for now, hacked my way around my problem by splitting the server's uplink into two separate bonds. This seems to have moderated the transaction rate of the HPC farm and allowed the "ls -l" calls to be served at an acceptable rate. Have you created enough nfsd threads on your Linux NFS servers? -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- 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