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Date:      Wed, 28 May 1997 14:17:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
To:        rodigue@ibm.net, ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: kern/3674: NFS in 2.2 RELEASE hangs.
Message-ID:  <199705281817.OAA06044@lakes.water.net>

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> 
> The following reply was made to PR kern/3674; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Jose A Rodriguez <rodigue@ibm.net>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, dfr@nlsystems.com
> Cc:  Subject: Re: kern/3674: NFS in 2.2 RELEASE hangs.
> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 22:04:16 -0400
> 
>  When I read that the problem might be caused by a fast server
>  overwhelming a slower client, I did the following to prevent IP
>  fragmentation:
>  
>  mount -t nfs -o -r=1024 remote_machine:/remote_directory  /mnt
>  
>  Then  I did
>  
>  	cp /mnt/remote_file local_file
>  
>  and after a few seconds I started to get kernel panics ! (Page faults
>  while in kernel mode, LRU queue inconsistent, and other nasty messages).
>  
>  By the way, the client's network card is AMD PCNET (pci & isa), 
>  at least this is what Win95 reports.
> 

 If I'm not mistaken - 'cp' using mmap to actually copy the file.
You could have an mmap or other VM problem here.  I recall similar
problems in the 1.1.5 time frame.  At that time, it was decided to
not use mmap in 'cp'...

	- Dave Rivers -




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