Too many mounts
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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?
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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?
The solution is to mount the entire home filesystem(s), not each student's home individually.
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