> Congestion avoidance mechanism of NFS clients might cause this
> situation. I think the congestion window size is not enough
> for high end machines. You can make the window be larger as a
> test.
The congestion avoidance window is supposed to adapt to the bandwidth
that is available. Turn congestion avoidance off if you like, but my
experience is that doing so tends to seriously degrade performance as
the number of timeouts + resends skyrockets.
Cheers,
Trond
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