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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Lockd on ISC Unix.
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.131412.17300@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Mar 90 13:14:12 GMT
References: <753@ncs.dnd.ca>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <753@ncs.dnd.ca> jstewart@ncs.dnd.ca (John Stewart) writes:
>Would anyone out there know whether this is true, and if so, 
>when it might be fixed?

Many implementations of NFS have locking disabled.  This is partly due to
the fact that when NFS locking is enabled, all file lock requests, including
local lock requests, cause the kernel to trap out to a daemon process which
manages the locks.  This can be very detrimental to local lock performance.

There may also have been some porting issues.

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