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From: era@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Sun Killer
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Date: 10 Aug 90 17:36:15 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 293, message 8

When someone said the IBM RS/6000 is a "sun killer", they meant it
literally.

We have an RS/6000 that had a filesystem on a 4/280 running 4.0.3 remotely
mounted, and when it blasted NFS UDP packets to the 4/280 at maximum
speed, all of the nfsd-s (eight of them) froze into permanent wait states.
This required a full reboot of the 4/280.  The 22 client users were ever
so pleased.

Has anyone run into this problem?  If so, have you been able to get a
solution/patch from Sun?  Please reply via e-mail to me, will summarize if
I receive any info.

Ed Arnold * NCAR * POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 * 303-497-1253(voice)
303-497-1137(fax) * era@ncar.ucar.edu [128.117.64.4] * era@ncario.BITNET
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