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

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Dan Haines wrote:

> ... 
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:33:31 -0500
> Doug Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
>  
> > Have you checked with netstat?  nfsstat? Can you run
> > sar so that you could get a better picture of what is
> > going on on each end of the transfer?  Can you watch
> > 'top' on the server-side while transfers take place?
> 
> Forgive my ignorance, what is "sar"?  man -k sar doesnt return
> anything.. ?   Also, I wouldnt know enough about the netstat and nfsstat
> commands to make then work WITH me, as opposed to against me.  Are there
> any suggestions you can give, with regards to arguments to pass to the
> above mentioned commands, and would this need to be run/monitored at the
> time of the file copy?
> 
> > 
> > Is your nfs mount 'soft' or 'hard', with or without 'intr'?
> 
> Hard mounted, using export and fstab files, again excuse my ignorance,
> what is intr?
> 
    "sar - Collect, report, or save system activity information" according
to the sar man page.  To get the program and its man page, install the
updated sysstat rpm.
    For information on intr, "man nfs".

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Steven Yellin