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Strange NFS problems...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John McClary Prevost)
Fri Feb 10 20:08:25 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:57:18 -0500 (EST)
From: John McClary Prevost <visigoth@dementia.org>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I've recently started sharing password and other information in a group
of machines via NFS. Something is hanging the system when it tries to
copy files from a number of machines in quick succession... the process
goes to sleep, and then any other process that tries to read NFS after
that hangs. When the first process is killed, it goes back to normal and
the kernel reports this:
Feb 10 18:47:57 latifundium.pc.cc.cmu.edu kernel: nfs_statfs: statfs
error = 5
Feb 10 18:47:57 latifundium.pc.cc.cmu.edu kernel: NFS: just caught a too
small read memory size..., email to NET channel
Feb 10 18:47:57 latifundium.pc.cc.cmu.edu kernel: NFS: result=-11,addrlen=16
apparently once for each process that hung.
Any ideas what could be causing this? At the moment I'm running a daemon
the should hopefully catch it and let me know, but it's still a little
disturbing, and it makes it hard for users who have home directories
shared between machines.
Thanks,
John Prevost, Dementia Linux Cabal
