On 06/06/07, Jean Figarella <jfigarella at vecna.com> wrote: > > I've been experiencing 5 to 20 seconds freezes ever since I upgraded my > nfs server. This serves about 30 people. Anytime someone writes a big > file to their home directory, the freezes happen. You can experience the > freezes when browsing the internet, I guess because firefox is > constantly writing data (cache, cookies, etc...). Other apps freeze up too. > > Now the question on my side is: can I force centos4 for serve nfs3 as > opposed to nfs4. If I am not mistaken this is dependent on the client? > > The reason Im asking is that if I can force the server to serve nfs3 > then the clients will default to nfs3 themselves. right? If no other suggestions help then you can mount NFS v2/3 only. Have a quick browse though... $ man 5 nfs Will.