diskless (ltsp)clients boot: nfs: server not responding spam

GUIPenguin · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 71

I have a sort of ltsp setup where my diskless clients will download my 2.6.15.1-r1 gentoo-sources modified kernel and mount a shared root lfs directory where I have them being my diskless compute nodes... its like and ltsp boot.. my client(s) boot fine in the end.. but it takes like 5 min because I keep getting

NFS: server 192.168.1.1 not responding... retrying

NFS: server 192.168.1.1 OK

anoying spam.. and I thought this might be the fix http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/NFS#NFS_Server_not_responding

but it doesn't work.. anyone else have any ideas or have the same problem with using the 2.6 kernel for client boot?

voodoodoc · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 158

How many nodes are you trying to boot at once? NFS scales like crap. If the server is too bogged down the NFS client will think the server is not responding. Then eventually it does.