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From: berger@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Pyramid and Sun net problems?
Message-ID: <122700002@datacube>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 13:29:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 13:29:00 1987
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!berger    Nov 16 13:29:00 1987


We are running osx 4.0 on a 90x (with no data cache). We seem to be 
experience real performance problems primarily with the ethernet.

We mostly have a network of Sun 3's with 2 Sun's as servers. There is
cross NFS mounting between the Sun's and the Pyramid. The sun's are running
Sun OS 3.4.

The biggest problem is when a user has a home directory on the Pyramid
and is logged into a sun, even if they are working on a Sun filesystem,
they get error messages such as:

NFS getattr failed for server datacube: RPC: (unknown error code)
NFS server datacube not responding still trying
NFS write failed for server datacube: RPC: Timed out
NFS write error 60 on host datacube
NFS getattr failed for server datacube: RPC: Timed out
NFS lookup failed for server datacube: RPC: Timed out
NFS readdir failed for server datacube: RPC: Timed out
NFS lookup failed for server datacube: RPC: Unable to receive

These messages happen pretty regularly if the sun is dealing with
a file on the pyramid file system via NFS or if the sun user's home
directory is on a pyramid file system via NFS.

The biggest problem is that some programs (in particular FRAME a WYSIWYG
editor on the Sun) will hang during a write, jamming the whole Sun
workstation at times.

Any suggestions?
				Bob Berger 

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