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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 1995 11:23:01 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger, MCSNet)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns
Message-ID:  <199511131823.LAA16943@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0tEeoZ-000IDUC@venus.mcs.com> from "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" at Nov 12, 95 09:59:26 am

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> The only other issue we have here is the nasty NFS-write problem that makes 
> shared access to remote resources tricky at best.   If *THAT* was fixed we
> would be running FreeBSD exclusively here.

Is this the "write with no permission truncate" or what?  What is this
NFS write problem?

> I've been using FreeBSD exclusively for news service for quite a while 
> (some clients use NFS, others NNTP to read) and its been fine.  What we 
> have a problem with is using it for our web server and general user system
> farm; the small NFS writes that the httpds do to the log disks cause system 
> lockups and hundreds of processes in a hung state.  The problem is understood,
> but there is no immediate path to a fix from what I've been told.

Who understands this problem, so I can talk to them?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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