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From: wul@sco.COM (Wu Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: lockd and informix do not get along
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Date: 3 May 91 20:29:29 GMT
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/--sengillo@Kodak.COM (Alan Sengillo) said...
| I have a problem when I run informix on a SCO or Interactive system that is
| running NFS. The problem is that lockd takes up alot of CPU time whenever
| I do a delete from the database. The surpising thing is that the database is
| not on the NFS mount. If I turn NFS off, the problem goes away. Has anyone
| else encountered this problem?
| 
| The NFS mount is used to mount a directory that is on a SUN.
\--

My guess would be that NFS is routing whatever lock requests originate
on the system (including those from Informix) to lockd, in case it's
a request for a lock on a file that's NFS-mounted.

Assuming that the requests take longer to process, don't actually fail,
I'd say that things work, although performance will likely be less than
optimal.  Are you getting failures?