diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.9-ping/fs/nfs/flushd.c linux-2.4.9-tune/fs/nfs/flushd.c
--- linux-2.4.9-ping/fs/nfs/flushd.c	Wed Jun 27 23:02:29 2001
+++ linux-2.4.9-tune/fs/nfs/flushd.c	Tue Aug 21 12:31:19 2001
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
  */
 #define NFSDBG_FACILITY         NFSDBG_PAGECACHE
 
+#define NFS_SCAN_RESO		(30*HZ)
+
 /*
  * This is the wait queue all cluster daemons sleep on
  */
@@ -118,7 +120,7 @@
 			cache->task->tk_status = -ENOMEM;
 			rpc_wake_up_task(cache->task);
 		}
-		interruptible_sleep_on_timeout(&cache->request_wait, 1 * HZ);
+		interruptible_sleep_on_timeout(&cache->request_wait, NFS_SCAN_RESO);
 	}
  out:
 	unlock_kernel();
@@ -205,7 +207,7 @@
 	lock_kernel();
 	if (time_after(NFS_NEXTSCAN(inode), time))
 		NFS_NEXTSCAN(inode) = time;
-	mintimeout = jiffies + 1 * HZ;
+	mintimeout = jiffies + NFS_SCAN_RESO;
 	if (time_before(mintimeout, NFS_NEXTSCAN(inode)))
 		mintimeout = NFS_NEXTSCAN(inode);
 	inode_append_flushd(inode);
@@ -263,8 +265,8 @@
 	}
 
 	dprintk("NFS: %4d flushd back to sleep\n", task->tk_pid);
-	if (time_after(jiffies + 1 * HZ, delay))
-		delay = 1 * HZ;
+	if (time_after(jiffies + NFS_SCAN_RESO, delay))
+		delay = NFS_SCAN_RESO;
 	else
 		delay = delay - jiffies;
 	task->tk_status = 0;
diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.9-ping/include/linux/nfs_flushd.h linux-2.4.9-tune/include/linux/nfs_flushd.h
--- linux-2.4.9-ping/include/linux/nfs_flushd.h	Fri Aug 17 12:49:55 2001
+++ linux-2.4.9-tune/include/linux/nfs_flushd.h	Wed Aug 22 12:24:14 2001
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
  * flushing out requests. If it exceeds the hard limit, we stall until
  * it drops again.
  */
-#define MAX_REQUEST_SOFT        192
-#define MAX_REQUEST_HARD        256
+#define MAX_REQUEST_SOFT        8192
+#define MAX_REQUEST_HARD        32768
 
 /*
  * Maximum number of requests per write cluster.
diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.9-ping/include/linux/nfs_fs.h linux-2.4.9-tune/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
--- linux-2.4.9-ping/include/linux/nfs_fs.h	Fri Aug 17 12:45:27 2001
+++ linux-2.4.9-tune/include/linux/nfs_fs.h	Tue Aug 21 12:28:53 2001
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@
  * The upper limit on timeouts for the exponential backoff algorithm.
  */
 #define NFS_MAX_RPC_TIMEOUT		(6*HZ)
-#define NFS_READ_DELAY			(2*HZ)
-#define NFS_WRITEBACK_DELAY		(5*HZ)
+#define NFS_READ_DELAY			(60*HZ)
+#define NFS_WRITEBACK_DELAY		(60*HZ)
 #define NFS_WRITEBACK_LOCKDELAY		(60*HZ)
-#define NFS_COMMIT_DELAY		(5*HZ)
+#define NFS_COMMIT_DELAY		(60*HZ)
 
 /*
  * Size of the lookup cache in units of number of entries cached.