From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 13 03:16:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA13079 for current-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 03:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA13073 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 03:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA03293; Tue, 13 May 1997 11:15:58 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:15:58 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: weirdo NFS (?) ld problem ? In-Reply-To: <199705130915.LAA03582@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 13 May 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I upgraded our NIS/YP NFS cluster of FreeBSD machines to 3.0-current > recently (to have real world test conditions :). > > One machine acts as NIS and NFS server. When one of my 'power' users is > compiling and linking a big physics program on the nfs client > (The executable is 8.5 MB in size) and he's starting it for the first time > he gets a Bus error. Starting it a second time he gets > the normal behaviour like printing the startup screen of the program. > > When he does the same thing on the server the program behaves fine. > > The client is a PPRO/200. The server is a P5/150. The directories the > program sources,objects and binaries reside in are in a mounted > /home tree. So I'm suspecting a NFS/VM/cache problem. I am pretty sure there is at least one NFS/VM bug since there are plenty of PRs about mmap not working properly in NFS. I have been putting off looking for this one since the VM system scares me. I'll have to get to it soon though :-(. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891