NFS timeout problems intr

I have a mount with the following options:
rw,hard,intr,timeo=1

This is ok for the first attempt at accessing a mount on a crashed
server as the process can be interrupted quickly , however the timeout
increases every time I try and access the server until it eventually
reaches somewhere between 30 and 60 seconds depending on the initial
value of timeo. is there any way of setting the maximum timeout to
something in the region of 1 or 2 seconds to allow the process
accessing the NFS server to be interrupted in a reasonable time.

Rob wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a mount with the following options:
> rw,hard,intr,timeo=1
>
> This is ok for the first attempt at accessing a mount on a crashed
> server as the process can be interrupted quickly , however the timeout
> increases every time I try and access the server until it eventually
> reaches somewhere between 30 and 60 seconds depending on the initial
> value of timeo. is there any way of setting the maximum timeout to
> something in the region of 1 or 2 seconds to allow the process
> accessing the NFS server to be interrupted in a reasonable time.[/color]

You don't mention what client operating system you are
using, and whether the mount is using TCP or UDP. So subject
the those caveats, specifiying the retrans= option should
give you the effect you want. For example, for timeo=1 and retrans=4,
the timeouts will progress from 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8, and 1.6
seconds, and the repeat the sequence starting at 0.1
seconds.

That said, low timeouts and retrans values will harm your NFS server,
since it will spend much of its time processing retries of requests
that are in progress. Perhaps you should invest in servers that
don't crash. :-)