From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 13 12:33:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08580 for current-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 12:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA08573 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 12:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA10672; Tue, 13 May 1997 12:26:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705131926.MAA10672@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: weirdo NFS (?) ld problem ? To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:26:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at May 13, 97 11:15:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.