On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:40:15 -0400, Jim Rees wrote: rees> Max Matveev wrote: rees> NFS/TCP does linear backoff then retransmiting - the manpage rees> was mistakenly asserting the "no backoff" theory. rees> Actually, now that I made you change the wording, I think the original rees> wording was correct. "Backoff" refers to an increase in the interval rees> between retries. Since the interval is constant, there is no backoff. The interval is increased: with timeo=10 (1 sec) the retries will be happening and t+1, t+3, t+6 etc - see my original mail on Jul 7: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg22425.html If that's not a backoff then what is? 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
