From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 20 11:26:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA17397 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sag.space.lockheed.com (sag.space.lockheed.com [192.68.162.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA17392 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by sag.space.lockheed.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/21Nov95-0423PM) id AA18670; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:26:45 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:26:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" Reply-To: "Brian N. Handy" To: Doug Rabson Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max # of files with NFS? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Files: The truth is out there Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Try modifying the directory at the server end while the client sits in a >while loop re-listing the directory. If something odd is happening with >the directory cookies, that might provoke a response. OK, I've done this and things still seem to be working OK. OH, and in response to one of the questions from yesterday, the directory in question was completely static -- I was just reading data from it, and I don't believe anything was changing on that disk. More detail... The disk being mounted is machine:/data4 on /data4 I'm then going down to /data4/handy/1996/07b, and I have 287 or so files there that are of varying sizes from about .5Mb to 2Mb. The only other thing I can guess right now is maybe my source tree was a day or two out of sync with my kernel, but I'm not completely sure of that. [checking, hold on...] OK, the kernel from was from 17-May, the source tree was from 14-May. I don't imagine anything in particular had changed in 2.2-STABLE during this time frame. Other things to exercise? At any rate, I'm using it, so if something is wrong I may be able to turn it up again. Brian