Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 20:01:30 -0700 From: Mika Nystrom <mika@cs.caltech.edu> To: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP-related automounter problem Message-ID: <199710020301.UAA22646@stun4p.cs.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:07:12 PDT." <199709292107.OAA01141@japonica.csl.sri.com>
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I have been having the same problem---it is very annoying since almost
all our filesystems are mounted via AMD.
However, for us, the problem did not go away when we shut off one cpu
(perhaps it got a little better, but it's still there). We are using
dual and quad NeTpower/intel ppros.
Mika
Fred Gilham writes:
>
>I'm having a strange problem that seems to come up with any snapshots
>after the end of August. It seems that automounting takes two tries.
>The first time I'll get a stale NFS handle; the second time everything
>is fine.
>
>It isn't a big problem. It's just annoying. For example, when
>reading mail in emacs I have to try at least two times to reply to
>some mail; once to remount the mh directory and once to remount my
>home directory.
>
>I have another non-smp machine that doesn't exhibit this problem.
>
>I can use the 970812 snapshot with no problem. I've used later
>August snapshots as well but I don't have them available any more.
>
>My system is a dual-PPro 200 with a super-micro P6DNF board. (I was
>experiencing the same problem with an older super-micro dual-PPro
>board which I upgraded for other reasons).
>
>-Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com
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