Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:51:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.NET> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Alex G. Bulushev" <bag@sinbin.demos.su>, Daniel Rock <rock@cs.uni-sb.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current NFS problem Message-ID: <19981015115155.O586@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810142214160.20984-100000@zone.syracuse.NET>; from Brian Feldman on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:16:21PM -0400 References: <19981015105245.H586@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810142214160.20984-100000@zone.syracuse.NET>
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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
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