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Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:47:35 +1000 (EST)
From:      Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>
To:        Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au
Subject:   Re: NFS/mmap freeze in 2.2R
Message-ID:  <199704101047.UAA04428@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>

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Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu> wrote:

>I have discovered how to freeze the system over an NFS mounted filesystem.
>If you map a file over NFS read/write and shared, write
>to the area in memory, and then have another program read that nfs file,
>the system will freeze.  The freeze is kindof wierd though.
>It appears that the kernel is still running somehow. 
>I can change the sysconts vty's but typing and all other processes
>are frozen and not running.

This is awfully similar to my problem (see my NFS stress test post of a
few days ago).  I'm about to follow-up on that thread.  Take a peek.

Stephen.



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