Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:10:30 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Subject: Re: Max # of files with NFS? Message-ID: <19970520091030.RY34905@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970519193806.26304X-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>; from Brian N. Handy on May 19, 1997 19:41:39 -0700 References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970519193806.26304X-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Brian N. Handy wrote: > So I have this NFS-mounted directory with 287 files in it. If I cd to > that directory and do an 'ls', that terminal hangs. Top says it's in > 'getblk'. > > The server is a DEC alpha running DU 4.0. The client is running > 2.2-STABLE. > > Is this a problem with too many files? I'm not sure what else it could > be. Close, i think. You could tcpdump the connection to learn more. I assume that's another incarnation of the dreaded NFSv3 READDIR problem. The server is probably handing out a new cookie verifier on each call, so the client endlessly retries to read the directory from the beginning. I'm sure Doug might tell you more about this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19970520091030.RY34905>