From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 14 19:23:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14313 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:23:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14286 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA03566; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:51:56 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA02229; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:51:55 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981015115155.O586@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:51:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian Feldman Cc: Julian Elischer , Mike Smith , "Alex G. Bulushev" , Daniel Rock , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current NFS problem References: <19981015105245.H586@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Feldman on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:16:21PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 14 October 1998 at 22:16:21 -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 14 October 1998 at 10:28:14 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: >>>>> Perhaps this could be the problem with NFS "hanging" certain people all >>>>> the time? (not the pine thing) The system spending way too much time >>>>> inside the kernel transmitting NFS packets.... >>>> >>>> No. Lack of ACCESS caching makes us slow and eats the network (because >>>> we are very good at generating/sending/receiving them). >>>> >>>> If there's someone out there that wants to work with the very best NFS >>>> people in the business to sort out our problems, please let me know. >>>> NetApp are keen to see our issues resolved (it will mean less angst >>>> for them in the long run, as they have many FreeBSD-using customers). >>>> >>>> Right now, we are accumulating a bad NFS reputation. 8( >>> >>> I thought kirk was doing that.... >> >> I hope not. > > Well, according to Jordan's "non-verification" to my alluding that since > Dr. McKusick was committing NFS deltas, he was the mysterious contracted > NFS fixer-upper. Yes, I think you're probably right, though I don't know why nobody has confirmed or denied it. My comment related to Julian's undirected comment, and wasn't intended seriously. > Last time I checked, he didn't really do his entire job if that was > to totally fix NFS.... but hey, I don't use NFS much if ever, so I > won't Complain... I use NFS. I'd really like to see it fixed. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message