Re: [NFS] [CFT] Improved RPC congestion handling for 2.4.0 (and 2.2.18)

2001-01-24 Thread H . J . Lu
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:36:38PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:00:29AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > " " == H J Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I got a report which indicates it may not be a good idea, > > > especially for UDP. Suppose you ha

Re: [NFS] [CFT] Improved RPC congestion handling for 2.4.0 (and 2.2.18)

2001-01-22 Thread H . J . Lu
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:00:29AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > " " == H J Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I got a report which indicates it may not be a good idea, > > especially for UDP. Suppose you have a lousy LAN or NFS UDP > > server for whatever reason, some NF

Re: [NFS] [CFT] Improved RPC congestion handling for 2.4.0 (and 2.2.18)

2001-01-22 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == H J Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got a report which indicates it may not be a good idea, > especially for UDP. Suppose you have a lousy LAN or NFS UDP > server for whatever reason, some NFS/UDP packets may get lost > very easily while a ping request may get

Re: [NFS] [CFT] Improved RPC congestion handling for 2.4.0 (and 2.2.18)

2001-01-22 Thread H . J . Lu
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:16:36PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Hi, > >One of the things we've been lacking in the Linux implementation of > RPC is the 'ping' routine. The latter is used on most *NIX > implementations in order to test whether or not the RPC server is > alive. To do so,