NFS performance issue

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* Quoth Sean Roe (sean at azbiz.net), on Thu, AD 2005.11.03, at 15:50 -0700:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am rtf'ing like mad but I cant seem to find an answer to my problem.  I 
> have an nfs server running Debian 3.1 and every once in a while, the load 
> goes through the roof (like 20+). Its an duel hyperthreaded intel 
> processor based machine that just hums along (it doesn't know the words) 
> most of the time.  But every couple of minutes or so the load spikes and 
> the nfs becomes unresponsive. Here is output from one of the clients:

Are you setting rsize and wsize on the client side? This would be in
/etc/fstab.

/i.