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From: jgd@pollux.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help needed: NFS on MicroVaxen
Message-ID: <313@pollux.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 14:57:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: pollux.313
Posted: Fri May 29 14:57:31 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jun-87 05:30:45 EDT
References: <334@osupyr.UUCP>
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Reply-To: jgd@pollux.UUCP (Dr. James George Dunham)
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX
Lines: 28
Keywords: NFS stuff hosed again need assistance a lot

In article <334@osupyr.UUCP> mark@osupyr.UUCP (Mark Welch) writes:
>
>HELP! We are running(?) NFS under 4.3BSD between/among three VaxStation II's.
>biod's, when started (in quantity 4, as per Sun manual), instantly hang.
>Small files ( < 4096 bytes ) can be NFSsed with impunity and glee; larger
>files cannot.  Error messages: NFS server (name) not responding, giving up;
>NFS read failed for server (name), TIMED OUT.  biod's restarted as per Sun
>manual, with NO effect, even temporary.  After biod's remain inactive for
>20 secs., they are swapped out.  nfsd's accumulate CPU time, so does portmap;
>biod's (to belabor the obvious) do not.
>
     We have a 750 Vax running 4.2bsd UNIX and had a similiar problem when
connecting to some Suns and Convergent Technology MiniFrames. The problem
turned out that the "trailers" option was being used on the Vax and the other
machines did not understand this option. At the end of rc I inserted the line:

/etc/ifconfig ex0 `hostname` up -trialers

and the problem went away.

  ****    ** **    *    *    James George Dunham
 *       *  *  *   *    *    Department of Electrical Engineering
  ***    *  *  *   *    *    Southern Methodist University
     *   *     *   *    *    Dallas, Texas  75275
 ****    *     *    ****     (214)-692-2812

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