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From: samperi@marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: NFS, hung processes
Keywords: NFS,hang,process,server,client
Message-ID: <24D1DF49.7A5@marob.masa.com>
Date: 29 Jul 89 16:45:59 GMT
Organization: ESCC, New York City
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There seems to be no obvious way to deal with the problem of hung processes
due to a dead NFS server. The recently posted 'cknfs' program might help
somewhat, but it does not deal with the situation where a server dies after
a user logs in. Furthermore, it appears that a process may still hang
even if no reference is made to dead NFS paths. I don't know why...perhaps
the crashed machine is flooding the network with garbage packets????

Perhaps some experienced NFS users could comment on various tricks that they
have used to deal with the "NFS hang problem"?

Thanks!
-- 
Dominick Samperi -- ESCC
samperi@marob.masa.com
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