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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 12:26:30 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: weirdo NFS (?) ld problem ?
Message-ID:  <199705131926.MAA10672@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970513111456.322J-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at May 13, 97 11:15:58 am

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> > 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.

[ ... ]

> > /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 :-(.

This is highly suspicious, in light of the bug you told me about,
Doug.  I'd be converned that it's a cascade effect.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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