Jim Rees wrote:
Max Matveev wrote:
NFS/TCP does linear backoff then retransmiting - the manpage
was mistakenly asserting the "no backoff" theory.
Actually, now that I made you change the wording, I think the original
wording was correct. "Backoff" refers to an increase in the interval
between retries. Since the interval is constant, there is no backoff.
Check this:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/NRL/backoff.html
So NFS over TCP uses a fixed retry interval, not a linear one. I don't
think it's correct to say "no backoff" but it's also not correct to say it's
"linear backoff," which implies the retry interval is linear in the number
of retries (you could argue that it's linear and the slope is zero but I
think that's misleading). The correct term might be "fixed backoff" or
"fixed retry interval."
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