Simon Andrews <simon.andrews <at> bbsrc.ac.uk> writes: > > I have a fedora 13 box on which I have a remote mounted nfs share over a > fairly slow (10Mb/s) link. I'm then transferring data onto this share > from a different machine using scp. > > The problem is that after scp reports that it's 100% complete the > program will hang for ~20 mins before it will move on to another file. > At this point it can't be killed. > > It looks like the nfs daemon is caching write data (around 2GB of it) > which lets scp think its finished when actually there's loads of data > sitting in a write buffer. The hanging is presumably the time it takes > to flush the buffer (there is a process called nfsiod which is active > during this time and df shows data is still being written). > > Does anyone know how to either make this buffer smaller, or get rid of > it all together so the scp can accruately report on its progress? > > Thanks > > Simon. > Hi Simon, you know, we are Linux users from Missouri USA here ... Can you tell us what system your nfs server is installed on, how its exported nfs shares are configured ? Then we can gain some valuable clues regarding performance of all factors involved. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines