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From: danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo NFS V2.0
Message-ID: <758@idacom.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 89 18:19:26 GMT
References: <7847@charlie.OZ> <238@ticipa.ti.com>
Organization: IDACOM Electronics Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
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Summary: server distribution?

In article <238@ticipa.ti.com>, clif@ticipa.ti.com (Clif Harden) writes:
>
> We run SR10.1 NFS 2.0 here on our network with no problems.
> I tryed the command that you gave and it worked with no problems.
> 
> This is the way I do the command, it might be something you want to try.
>       mount -v -t nfs -o soft aragorn:/u /u

Since we run these large, power hungry Mentor Graphics CAD applications,
we usually try to distribute our servers around several nodes.


            node A      /O\  nfsd, mountd        Node A and B are
                       /   \                     DN3000's with 4Mb RAM
                       |    |   Token Ring
                       \    /         
            node B      \O/         
                         |          Ethernet
            -------------+-----------------------------             
                                      
To realize this, we run the NFS servers on a node one the ring _different_
from the gateway node to the Ethernet (which connects to some Suns and a
Vax)

However, it we always get timeouts when trying to access DOMAIN files
from one of the Suns.  I could guess that the nfsd gets paged out when
there is no activity (after you _do_ get into the directory, the response
time seems normal). We have changed the mount command so that
there are lots retries etc.

Has anyone configured like this and did it work?

-- 
Danny Wilson
IDACOM Electronics		danny@idacom.uucp
Edmonton, Alberta		alberta!idacom!danny
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