Re: kernel: nfs: server not responding,timed out

    If you are using automount (/etc/rc.d/init.d/amd) to mount your file 
systems, you could try increasing the timeout (see the amd man page),
or you could mount the remote file systems permanently instead of
using automount.

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Dan Haines wrote:

> Hi
> 
> We are running RedHat 6.2 on several high end machines in New Zealand,
> at the MetService.  The reason for running 6.2 is that the model we use
> to run weather reports, only works (at the moment) on the 6.2 kernel. 
> We have slightly tweaked all our kernels to 2.2.17-14smp.
> 
> We get errors occasionally, which occer when a machine called "ajax"
> tries to read a file on a readonly nfs share on a machine called "lisa".
>  The job we have running, reads multiple files from this read only nfs
> share.  Something goes wrong, and when this job reads a file from the
> share, it reports that it cannot find the file, and carries on with the
> next file in the job list, from the same nfs share, without a problem. 
> This would seem that the nfs share temporarily times out, which results
> in the following message appearing in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep 16 18:00:58 ajax kernel: nfs: server lisa.met.co.nz not responding,
> timed out 
> Sep 16 19:01:15 ajax kernel: nfs: server lisa.met.co.nz not responding,
> timed out 
> 
> So ajax tries to read from lisa via nfs, cant find the file, our program
> generates an error saying the file doesnt exist (when it clearly does),
> and the above entry is added to the messages file on ajax.
> 
> Any help, or suggestions on extra settings to set on the nfs share to
> avoid this problem would be greatly appreciated.  I have searched around
> the net for similar problems, and found this thread, which matches my
> problem as close as I can find:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/seawolf-list/msg32253.html
> 
> Thank you very much in advance,
> 
> Kind regards,
> Dan Haines
> 
> Systems Administrator
> MetService,
> New Zealand.
> 
> 
> 
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