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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS
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:On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, David E. Cross wrote:
:
:> I am noticing a large number of pine (and only pine) procs stuck in disk-wait.
:> All of the are in the WCHAN "vmpfw".  Any ideas what this may mean?
:
:Is the mail spool pine accessing on this NFS volume, or just the binary?
:
:If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail spools
:via NFS.
:
:Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org

    Which FreeBSD release is being used here?  What kind of NFS mount is 
    being used (localhost mount?) 

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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