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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:21:16 +0200
From:      Charlie & <root@phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS-related process hangs in -current
Message-ID:  <19970630102116.22811@phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
In-Reply-To: <199706291822.LAA00962@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sun, Jun 29, 1997 at 11:22:39AM -0700
References:  <199706291822.LAA00962@austin.polstra.com>

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On Sun, Jun 29, 1997 at 11:22:39AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> I updated my -current box on Friday night, and since then I've been
> seeing some process hangs that seem to be related to NFS.  This is
> with -current CVSupped around 20:50 PDT on June 27 (full make world
> plus kernel build).
> 
> The problem shows up when I try to build the modula-3-lib port on a
> filesystem that is NFS-mounted from another system.  The NFS server
> is running 2.2-stable.  At some point in the build, the "quake"
> program (M3's answer to "make", *sigh*) hangs in disk wait state.
> It is unkillable after that -- the only way to get rid of it is by
> rebooting.  Other processes continue to work OK.
> 
> Interestingly, I tried it twice and it hung at the same point both
> times.  Each test takes a long time, so I only have those two data
> points so far.
> 
> I built the same port on a local filesystem without any problems.
> 
> Does this ring a bell for anybody?  I haven't tried building this
> port via NFS for quite a while, so the problem is not necessarily
> very new.
> 
> John
> --
>    John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
>    John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
>    "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

Have the same problem between FreeBSD-2.2-Stable and DEC-Alpha under
Digital Unix.
Mounting the NFS-Directory with option nfsv2 "solved" the problem for me.
It seems to be a problem of nfsv3 .

Werner




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