From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 10 09:54:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01643 for current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01636 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pauling.salk.edu (pauling [198.202.70.108]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06616; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:54:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol To: Doug Rabson cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Hidetoshi Shimokawa Subject: Re: NFS weirdness in -current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Tom Bartol wrote: > > > > > Try this: > > > > At the same time as doing a: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=ick bs=8192 count=1024 > > > > to an NFS mounted directory in one xterm do an: > > > > ls > > > > from within the same NFS mounted directory in another xterm. What happens > > is the ls hangs until the dd finishes. I don't think this the correct > > behavior and it certainly is not the behavior I saw under 2.1.0R. Anybody > > have a clue here? > > This sounds as if it might be related to a problem which came up > yesterday. Hidetoshi Shimokawa was working on a patch which might fix > this. > > -- > Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com > Phone: +44 171 734 3761 > FAX: +44 171 734 6426 Yes, it does sound like that problem now that you point it out. Hidetoshi, is there anything I can do to help out? Thanks, Tom