I've google'd all over about this and can't seem to find a solution so I'm hoping someone here can give some guidance... I have a NFS server running Solaris in a far-off location I have a bunch of RHEL 3 WS NFS clients mounting directories off the NFS server in another location. In /etc/fstab I have this entry to mount user home directories: scifs:/users /users nfs rw 0 0 99% of the time things work well, but every once in a while the NFS mount causes the machines to hang when used. When I attempt to tar up a directory tree, the machine tends to hang. I wasn't sure what was going on at first but it looks like I have some sort of an NFS issue. I keep seeing these messages in /var/log/messages: Aug 25 15:36:54 kernel: nfs: server scifs not responding, still trying Aug 25 15:39:09 kernel: nfs: server scifs not responding, still trying Aug 25 15:39:09 kernel: nfs: server scifs OK Aug 25 15:40:09 kernel: nfs: server scifs not responding, still trying Aug 25 15:40:32 kernel: nfs: server scifs OK Aug 25 15:40:42 kernel: nfs: server scifs not responding, still trying Aug 25 15:40:43 kernel: nfs: server scifs OK I check with our network IT folks and they show minimal network usage between the machines (they are on different subnets in different locations). I double-checked by doing an scp of an directory structure from one machines local disk to another machines local disk and it is fast, as expected. I ran ethereal to capture packets between the two machines and see the tar process starting. At some point, I start to see fragmented packets. I'm not sure if this means anything (just yet). So, I'm at a loss. I don't know how to track down this problem, or even where to start looking. Google turned up similar issues, but there isn't a consensus as to what is causing it. Any ideas? Ryan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
