I noticed that there was a hard-coded timeout value of 6000 (ms) in src/java/org/apache/hadoop/dfs/DFSClient.java - as an experiment, I took that way down and now I'm not noticing the problem. (Doesn't mean it's not there, I just don't feel the pain...)
This feels like a terrible solution^H^H^H^H^H^hack though, particularly since I haven't yet taken the time to actually understand the code. -- James Moore | [EMAIL PROTECTED] blog.restphone.com