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From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Max # of files with NFS?
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>> 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'. 
>
>  [...]

Doug writes:

>I just listed a directory with 7800 files it to check.  I can't (yet) test
>directly with DU 4.0 but if you could get a packet trace, it might help
>diagnose what is happening.  Run 'tcpdump -vv -s300 port nfs' while you
>try to do the 'ls'.

Boy, I don't get it...but it works today???  I had to recompile my kernel
with the bpf stuff, then I rebooted, mounted the directory, ran tcpdump
and did the ls and everything worked fine.

I'll keep an eye on this, though, and if I can figure out how to recreate
the problem I'll come on back with more info.

Thanks,

Brian