Novell Documentation: NFS Gateway for NetWare

8.3 Tuning for NFS Version 2

For this release, the default values are tuned for NFS version 3 performance. If you use NFS version 2, tune the following gymount parameters to avoid delays and timeout failures:

Decrease the value of the maxOutstandingPackets parameter to 4.
Increase the value of the rpcTimeOut parameter higher than the default value of 1. A useful starting value for the parameter is 4.

Using Linux NFS Server

When you use NFS version 2 on Linux^*, NFS Server needs tuning in particular. Apart from the above guidelines, we recommend that you increase the number of NFS server threads.

For more information on increasing NFS server threads, refer to the nfsd (8) man page of Linux.