From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 17 01:00:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA17906 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA17890; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704170800.BAA17890@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: kern/3304: NFS V2 readdir hangs Reply-To: "Gary Palmer" Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR kern/3304; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Gary Palmer" To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/3304: NFS V2 readdir hangs Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:49:10 -0400 Thomas David Rivers wrote in message ID <199704160209.WAA01541@lakes.water.net>: > Mount a V2 NFS server (I've tried both Sunos 4.1.3 and HP/UX 9.05), > go to a rather large directory and do "ls -l". The ls -l will hang > in sbwait(). This apparently also needs a rather slow network > for a reliable reproduction - that is, it's somewhat timing dependent. I recently did something similar (ls -l on a 16,000 file directory) across NFS on a recent RELENG_2_2 box which was mounting /var/mail from a 2.1.x based mail server. Worked fine. This was probably 2 or 3 weeks ago... I'll try again if you like. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info