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In article <1992Dec28.222758.11563@samba.oit.unc.edu> Eric.Aitala@launchpad.unc.edu (Eric Aitala) writes:
>	We're having a problem with our DEC system.  We keep losing the NSF
>servers on various machines.   The system keeps complaning that the NSF mount
>is not responding.  We've had no luck tracing the problem, it seems
>to happen completely randomly.  Anyone have any ideas?
>

In spite of the fact that you haven't given us a clue as to what hardware,
software or breath mint you are using, I'll share my own experiences with
you.

I'm running an 11/750 with vms 5.4-3 and UCX 2.0.  This is a real slow
puppy even on a good day.  Often when I try to do NFS mounts from our NeXT
boxes, we see messages similiar to those you mention.

Basically it appears that if the 750 is busy it takes quite a while to
start a new process to service NFS.  The NeXT gets quite impatient about
the delay and times out.  I guess I should configure things to start the
nfs server at boot time and keep it around. I haven't really hacked around
to see if there is a way to lengthen the amount of time the NeXT's will
wait.

Good luck.

-- 
Jerry S. Weiss	  "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the antimatter!"
j-weiss@nwu.edu    Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School