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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: SUN Ethernet problems
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 15 Aug 89 15:18:34 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 100, message 1 of 14

In article <641@brazos.Rice.edu> cy@attctc.dallas.tx.us (Cyrus Foughty) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 90, message 8 of 9
>
>We have a network of 16 SUNs with two servers (3/280's).  We continually
>get the error message "NFS server not responding", then after a second the
>next  message appears telling us it is now working. Also at certain times
>the network just slows down to the point that scrolling in "vi" takes
>several seconds. I know the descriptions are pretty ethereal, but any
>general tuning tips or ideas would help. BTW, we are running SUNOS 3.5.
>

We got that a lot too until we upgraded to 4.x It seems the timeout is now
longer. I don't know if it can be changed on 3.5 or not.

Russ Poffenberger
Schlumberger Technologies
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com