Subject: NFS write error 60

From: Adam Howell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:46:00 -0800 (PST)

Hello, 
	I am having some problems with closing and writing to pine
mailboxes which are kept on a local file server and mounted via NFS.  The
workstations in use are DEC Alpha's running Digital Unix 4.0D.  I
understand that IMAP is recommended to access the mail spool, but we would
like to use NFS if possible.  
	The problem occurs when a user attempts to close their inbox,
generally containing over 15 messages or so.  A "SERIOUS DISK ERROR"
message occurs at intermittent times, and the corresponding console error
message is "NFS_3 write error 60: connection timed out".  However, the
network connection has low traffic, and pinging the server is fine.  I've
tried turning off file locking, considering the problems associated with
pine and locking under nfs, but this doesn't alleviate the problems.  
	I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.        

-Adam

Vehicle Dynamics Lab
University of California, Berkeley