Bug#387809: initramfs-tools: please increase sleep time on nfs retries

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:22:55PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.79
> Severity: minor
> 
> when using nfs, it sleeps for 0.1 seconds. it retries 180 times by
> default. this means the server may get nearly 180 dhcp and nfs mount
> requests in a little over 18 seconds, and while an individual client
> doing this is no big deal, an entire network doing this could be
> crippling.
> 
> please increase the delay to 1 second, or better yet, increase the retry
> delay a little each failure, i.e. : 1 second 1st retry, 2 seconds 2nd
> retry, 4 seconds 3rd retry, etc..
 
good idea.
> i'll work on some patches later...

no need, thanks for the suggestion, will do for next upload.


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maks