why NFS server are alwasy not responing

[annie_3]

Hi all,

Now I am using HP-UX11.00, I configured NIS and NFS on the system. Now I have 1 NFS server and 12 clients. Normally the NFS server works smoothly. But when I put more than 2000 files under one directory and try to list files from NFS client. I always get error "NFS server is not responing" and can't list files. I you know how to slove it. please mail to me qiong.q.wang@nokia.com.

Thanks in advance
Annie

[Tommy Palo]

It could be worth a try increasing the parameter NUM_NFSD in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf to eg. 32 and then stop and start the NFS server:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.servser stop|start

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi Annie,

Make sure you installed the latest s700_800 11.00 ONC/NFS General Release/Performance Patch (PHNE_22125)
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/hp-ux_patches/s700_800/11.X/PHNE_22125

As Tommy suggested, increasing the number of daemons will surely help as well.


Best regards,

Dan

[James H. Trice Ph.D.]

Make sure you do not have ls aliased to something like "ls -aF" or anything that would do attribute calls. Attribute calls are expensive over NFS.

If you are automounting make sure you have autofs=1 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf. If not shutdown nfs client, edit nfsconf and start nfs client. automount will use nfs v2. autofs will use nfs v3 under HPUX 11.

I have found glance to be helpful. You should have a 30 day demo with your distribution if you do not already have it installed. It will allow you to view statistics on all the nfs calls and types.

Good luck.
Jim Trice