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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:35:45 -0500
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS problem?
Message-ID:  <20030312113545.A50948@locore.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20030312.212909.71544461.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>; from hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:29:09PM %2B0900
References:  <20030312.212909.71544461.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>

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Apparently, On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:29:09PM +0900,
	Hiroki Sato said words to the effect of;

> Hi,
> 
>  I experienced an NFS problem between an i386 box and a sparc64 box.
>  The i386 box that is running 5-CURRENT as of Mar 7 acts as an NFS server,
>  and the sparc64 box that is running 5-CURRENT as of Mar 5 acts
>  as an NFS client.  The problem is that the server is locked up
>  under heavy loads such as doing make release.  Once locked,
>  it is not responsive to outcoming ssh connection request and so on,
>  and I had to reboot the box...
> 
>  A friend of mine told me in an i386(server)<->i386(client) case
>  it was OK under heavy loads, and I confirmed that in an
>  i386(server, 4-STABLE)<->sparc64(client, 5-CURRENT) case it also worked fine.
>  As far as I can check, the problem seems to happen in an
>  i386(server, 5-CURRENT)<->sparc64(client, 5-CURRENT) case only.
> 
>  I don't know what is the trigger, but did anyone experience
>  the same problem? 

Kris Kennaway has reported a similar problem, but iirc it was the
opposite; with 4.x the server would crash and upgrading it to 5.0
fixed it.  I have no idea what could cause it though.  I use nfs
pretty heavily between my sparc64 development machines and a 4.x
x86 server and have never seen this.

Jake

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