Re: NFS disconnects periodically

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Randy Edwards]
> The client will freeze/lockup (no keyboard response or mouse
> movement, nothing) for 5-10 seconds, then come back to life for a
> second or two, then freeze again for 10 seconds or so, and then will
> act normally.  Since those two machines are not critical in what
> they're doing, I haven't worried about it but it sounds like what
> you're seeing.

Could this be a half/full duplex issue between the network card and
the switch?  Try to force the network card and the switch to use the
same setting.