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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: 4.0.3 NFS lockup: summary
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.211126.7047@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 10 Sep 90 21:11:26 GMT
Reply-To: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
Organization: Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Boulder, CO
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A while back, I posted an inquiry about lockup of the NFS daemons on
a 4/280 running 4.0.3.  This lockup seemed to be provoked by an IBM RS/6000
that was writing into one of the 280's filesystems.  The NFS Jumbo Patch
did not cure the problem.

I subsequently learned of a patch known as "nfs_dw", a changed ufs_bmap.o
module, which fixes a problem with nfsd hanging on a memory page
that never gets unlocked due to a bug.  This information was provided
by Hal Stern of Sun (halstern@sun.com).

era@ncar.ucar.edu