Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 17:46:10 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem FOUND Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970404174607.00aa89a4@etinc.com>
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Any of you who have chosen not to ignore my rantings of the past 2 days might be aware that I couldn't get 2.2.1-RELEASE to load with an NFS load. The symptoms that I was having was a complete system hang during the transfers, at random points, but always rather quickly (usually within the bin load). I tried both a dec chip PCI card (de driver) and an old reliable ne2000 (ed driver) with identical results. I also tried 2 different PCs with 2 different types of hard drives...again identical results. I then thought that NFS was broken, and shifted to FTP. I was surprised to find that FTP had exactly the same problem; that is a random hang during the transfer. I then began thinking that it was the distribution diskette, and noticed that a new one had been put up on April 3...so I tried it. Same result. I then remembered that I had noticed that 2.2R was a bit clunky with 8 meg of ram, so I popped in another 8 meg, and the problems disappeared. So, it seems, ftp and nfs loads cant be done on at 8 meg system. Now I know that RAM is cheap, but there's something wrong when a system running no services crashes with 8 meg of ram during a file transfer. There must be a hole somewhere....unfortunately its pretty hard to monitor anything when booting from the install disk. Well, its 5:30 on a Friday, and Im outta here...so I guess its not THAT bad! :-) Dennis
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