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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: NFS timing (Was: Just how stable is current)
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:35:22 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199604151859.UAA12685@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 15, 96 08:59:52 pm
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> For me, it required me to revert to 1 KB blocksize (even though the
> NFS server is also only a lame 8-bit 3c503), and we've got at least
> one installation problem report where the installation totally starved
> at the first lengthy file, even _with_ the ``NFS slow'' option.
> 
> I really wonder what might have caused this change.
> 
Try adding an spl0(); at the beginning of vm_daemon in vm_pageout.c.  This
was causing some unpleasant interrupt latencies.  BDE figured this one out.
Might work, might not.

John