From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 3 03:54:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA17581 for current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 03:54:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [207.198.1.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA17576 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 03:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA03412; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 03:18:42 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199704030818.DAA03412@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: I've survived make world. In-Reply-To: <199704031036.CAA17928@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from Satoshi Asami at "Apr 3, 97 02:36:02 am" To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 03:18:41 -0500 (EST) Cc: current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > However, the NFS client appears to be hopelessly broken (I don't know > about the NFS server, this machine isn't one). I initially had the > ports/distfiles pointing to a directory on an NFS server (running > FreeBSD-2.1.5). At some point during the package builds, a process > locks up trying to read/write a distfile, and the whole NFS system > went down on this machine (I could still login as "root", as long as I > didn't try to touch NFS-mounted directories). I changed > ports/distfiles to a local directory and it appears to be fairly > stable since then. FWIW: I've been doing my real work (but not the make world) over NFS with the server running 2.1.7.1. I've done a few ports builds with ports/distfiles mounted NFS (bash and one of the tk flavors). The Compaq is mass market: 24 MB memory, P5-166, IDE drive, 3C509 ethernet, etc. -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936