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From: abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: nfs daemon blocks system.
Message-ID: <2924@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 89 13:44:45 GMT
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>In article <278@kubix.UUCP> mvw@kubix.UUCP (Maarten van Wijk) writes:
>Yes! We've been having a problem with NFS that appears to be caused by
>PCs on our network (using Sun's PC-NFS). Every once in a while the
>nfs daemons on one of our microvaxes (Ultrix 2.2 or 2.3) will just go
>bananas and eat up most of the CPU. We run 8 nfs daemons...

>If anyone has any ideas, I'd certainly like to hear them!! DEC support
>is clueless so far.

>We have the same sort of problem .. 
> ....
> DEC support is also clueless.
> 

Well, I'm not sure if its a DEC specific problem. Our Sun servers exhibit the
same behaviour. Last nite one of them went up to a load ave of 51 ! before
I shut it down. DEC is probably using basically the same NFS code, so I suspect
that there are just some latent bugs which are brought out by the presence of
things like PCNFS on the net.

art stine
sr network engineer
clarkson u