nfs delays are a pain for users

[Ken Spagnolo]

We have a Pyramid 9815 (OSx4.4) and a DECstation 3100 (Ultrix 3.1)
nfs'd together, so there can be users logged on to one, whose home
directory is on the other.  Our ethernet load is fairly high at
8-10%.  Users get pretty regular occurences of "server not responding".
Perhaps this cannot be completely done away with, but I'd like to be
able to "tune" the mount parameters a bit to cut down the frequency
as much as possible.  Hopefully, some combination of retry, retrans
and timeo, etc. will make some difference.  Before I get into it, I'd
like to know if anyone has a similar setup, and what has worked for
you.  Thanx for any info.

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