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From: rob@ll-xn.UUCP (Robert S. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix system hangs when /etc/nfsd starts up
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Date: 3 May 88 23:29:17 GMT
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[This came through as mail but seems to be of general interest -- AZ]


It's software.  If there is an nfs client trying to read - and it is
behind and sending lots of reads/writes to the vax, then as soon as
nfsd starts up, the system crashes.  (Ultrix support should know about
this.)  It has not happened on our 2.2 systems.