On linux, exportfs -f
run on the server will often refresh a lost nfs connection. Mike -- Michael Smith US Army Corps Remote Sensing GIS/Center On 2/20/14, 2:18 PM, "Stephen Woodbridge" <wood...@swoodbridge.com> wrote: >On 2/20/2014 1:56 PM, Travis Kirstine wrote: >> We are running mapcache in a cluster with each tile/ webserver mounted >> to a shared cache. Periodically (~once a month) the NFS mount will lock >> and the load average on the web servers will skyrocket. >> >> Has anyone encountered something similar? > >Its been a few years but I have have found that it is better to use >samba mounts for this kind of application because they are more or less >stateless and they will recover a connection if a server drops out and >comes back or even just times out on an access. I wasn't using mapcache >but I did have a server farm with multiple systems all cross mounting a >distributed cache and NFS required numerous reboots. All those issues >went away using samba mounts. > >-Steve W > >_______________________________________________ >mapserver-users mailing list >mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users