cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_timeout.c

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Kirk McKusick wrote:

> mckusick    2003/11/12 14:28:28 PST
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_timeout.c 
>   Log:
>   At the request of several developers, restore the DIAGNOSIC code
>   deleted in 1.81. Increase the initial timeout limit to 2ms to
>   eliminate spurious messages of excessive timeouts in the NFS
>   client code.
>   
>   Requested by:   Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
>   Requested by:   Mike Silbersack <silby at silby.com>
>   Requested by:   Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com>

Could this have been responsible for the apparent hangs some (few but
unfortunate) users were seeing with NFS, frequently accompanied by notices
that the NFS server was unreachable? 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories