From: Jonas Oberg <jonas@informatik.gu.se>
Subject: Too many mounts
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:52:22 +0100
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In our department we have a problem with our student server. It
appears that the Linux kernel limits the number of anonymous (nfs
et. al) mounts to 256. This is a problem for us, since we use
automount to mount home directories from our fileserver via NFS. We
are frequently in the range of 190-220 active mounts (we have set the
automount timeout to be about 30 seconds to get rid of idle mounts
quickly).

Does anyone have a solution for this problem? Would using devfs
perhaps solve the problem by allowing more anonymous mounts?

-- 
Jonas Öberg
Systems administrator/webmaster, Department of Informatics,
School of Economics and Commercial Law, Gothenburg University.
Phone. +46-31-7732717, Fax. +47-31-7734754


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