hehe sorry should have read the mail before anwsering .. im not sure if the default fw (busybox) comes with sysctl if so you can tweak the start script /usr/hddapp/etc/rc.d/S85nfs.sh and define a bigger value to NFS_QS -- flip philipp Wehrheim schrieb: > Hi Chris, > > what is your firmware? > > Christian Wolf schrieb: >> Hi there, >> >> I have the following machine: >> >> Hardware Name IB-NAS 1000 Platform >> Firmware Version 2.3.2.patch.IB.1.beta.5 (Dec. 1, 2006) >> Hardware Version Rev. B >> Product Vendor ICY BOX >> >> I am using it as NFS server for Linux machines. Reading from the Icy >> works very well (while not really fast, compared to ftp transfers, >> maybe up to 2,5 MByte/sec on our 100MBit Lan). >> >> However, writing to the Icy is a pain in the *ss: I can not move files >>> 650 MB (I am customizing Ubuntu DVDs, so I have file sizes up to 2 >> GB, also when I use virtual machine images that I store on the NAS) >> without the NAS crashing. First it stalls, then it does no respond any >> more and needs to be rebooted. I therefore have to upload large files >> via ftp, which is unconvenient and nothing my wife can do :-) >> >> I am using the following mout parameters on the local machines: >> >> Icy:/mnt/IDE1/public /media/Icy nfs >> rw,bg,soft,intr,retry=5,wsize=2048,rsize=8192 0 0 >> >> I tried also large wsize parameters (8192 etc.) but that also did not help. >> >> Any ideas how this could be fixed? >> >