I tried to copy 15GByte over NFS: source single Pentium 400 , plain Suse 7.0 this networkcard on both sides (100 MBit, duplex, nway switch )
This sounds well-known to me. We are also using a couple of rtl8139-cards, and copying larger files over NFS leads very fast to a stopped network. The only workaround I found is to start ntop on the NFS server for about a second. But it's annoying and not secure to start ntop every time the network hangs this way. Btw, I also found, that the userspace NFS daemon, shipped with SuSE [6.4] hangs less than the knfsd (SuSE-linux-2.2.16). Another solution we tried was to reduce the network speed back to 10MBit, and everything worked fine (but this option is out of question). If there are known solutions and patches, please PM to me. Christian Mudra ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Mudra Just remember what your mother always told you: mudra@informatik.uni-kl.de "When you open windows you let in bugs". Sysadmin AG Wiehagen, Universitaet Kaiserslautern TubMud Admin (telnet morgen.cs.tu-berlin.de 7680)