Hello, we are running a Solaris 10 NFS server with two clients, one being Solaris 10 and the other one being a CentOS 4.3 machine. Both are SunFire x4200 machines and the fileserver is a SunFire 260R. The Solaris/Solaris combo works fine. Just Solaris/Linux gives us headaches. After a day of use with multiple users (6 concurrent Users using SunRays), the machine starts to slow down, especially on file operations. A ls or starting bash takes about 6s in that state. At the same time, the Solaris machine still works fine. To recover from that situation, we need to reboot the Linux machine.
We use nfs3/tcp on linux and nfs4/tcp on solaris clients. All machines are located in the same rack, connected with GB ethernet over a cisco switch. Is this a known problem? A misconfiguration? Any hints? Thanks Stephan -- Stephan Herhut Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research University of Hertfordshire
