[ENBD] nbd with an SMP kernel?

[Peter T. Breuer]

"A month of sundays ago Peter T. Breuer wrote:"
> Thanks, you're helping me see what's happening. I don't know what to do
> about it, though!

How about:

  slave clients die permanently after 30 failed connection attempts (at
  10s intervals) or max 5mins without contact. The client manager
  restarts from scratch when all slaves have died.

That compares with what happens now, which is that the slave clients try
repeatedly and forever to restablish contact. If they die, they're
restarted.  That's a fine tactic if the network has gone done, but
the server hasn't. But it doesn't work when the server is restarted.

However, if I change, networks outs of more than 5mins will confuse the
server. So it also will have to kill its slaves for good after 5 minutes
(they'll just hang around otherwise, waiting for nothing, and being
killed and restarted at intervals).

Peter