Re: [NFS] NFS inconsistent behaviour

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 16:45:28 EST


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 16:17 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Both client implementations (kernel and glibc) should re-use port
> numbers or connections aggressively. To that end, the kernel RPC
> client is already doing this. I know Red Hat has suggested using a
> connection manager for user-level RPC applications to share. In
> addition the kernel NFS client is sharing connections to a server
> between all mount points going to that server.

IIRC, Mike Waychison did some work a couple of years ago on a userspace
daemon that managed RPC connections.

Cheers,
Trond

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