* Francisco J Ballesteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another problem is that in general, only the user or the application > knows when it's a problem, and when it's a s l o o w link.
No keepalive / ping to check network problems ? > I had to adjust timeouts in the Plan B ns (which does timeout as you > suggest) a lot of times, to avoid paranoia regarding "is it a network > error, or yet another bug I introduced?". > > You can use an intermediate file server process to do your timeouts, > and run them only when you know there's a problem. That way the kernel > you never see a hanged up ns. Aehm, are we still talking about the v9fs linux driver ? It really shouldn't hang up if the server dies. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
