From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 7 07:07:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA08877 for current-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 07:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA08871 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 07:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA22794 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 May 1996 23:42:50 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605071412.XAA22794@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: NFS in -current is _BUSTED_ To: current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 23:42:49 +0930 (CST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Subject really says it all, however some more details would probably be helpful 8) In all cases, I'm using 2.1-STABLE systems of a month or so ago as NFS servers. Clients are all either the latest SNAP or more recent -current. Not _all_ clients fail. Of the tested systems, all the Pentiums work, and the 486 and 386 clients fail. Failure symptoms are a total hang of all operations referencing a mounted filesystem. Not _all_ operations cause an immediate failure. On the failing systems, these operations don't often cause failure : - Login-style references to home directories. - 'make install' (not compiling) of a kernel. These do : - 'gcc -o foo foo.c' - 'make install' of a port. On the nonfailing systems, I have compiled a large number of ports, performed logins, written hundreds of megabytes of raw data, etc. I believe I _may_ have seen one or two hangs on such a system, however this was while working on the 'doscmd' emulator, so it may have been unrelated. Naturally, if anyone has any suggested fixes, I'm more than happy to try them out 8) (or even more questions about what happens...) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[