On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:16:53 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Anyway, why shouldn't we back off if the server is failing to respond? Wasn't it the no-backoff/drop-connection approach what Mike Eisler was advocating back in '06 during Connectathon? http://www.connectathon.org/talks06/eisler.pdf I think this was the trigger to go from exponential backoff to linear. max -- 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