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- From: ostertag@cs.umd.edu (Eduardo Ostertag)
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- Subject: Lots of NFS I/O halts my NeXT. Please help!!
- Message-ID: <63067@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 03:54:34 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Maryland at College Park
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- I have a NeXTstation (non-Turbo) with NeXTSTEP 3.0, 20MB RAM, 400MB disk.
- The NeXT is our File Server and is exporting its entire disk. This disk is
- being NFS mounted from a bunch of client UNIX machines in our LAN (none of
- them is a NeXT). THE PROBLEM: each time I execute a shell script in a
- client machine to create a big archive file (ar) in the exported disk, my
- NeXT either freezes or enters panic mode. In this last case, I get a
- message in "/usr/adm/messages" that says "unexpected page fault".
-
- Details:
-
- The NeXT's exported disk is being mounted as "/server" in all client
- machines. I login to one of client machines and do the following:
-
- bash$ cd /server
- bash$ sh -x script
-
- were "script" contains around 150 lines that look as follows:
-
- ar alv archive.a file.o
-
- I know this could be done using one "ar" command, but this is not the
- point. Also, the "l" options makes "ar" create its temporary files in the
- current directory, in other words the NeXT NFS mounted disk "/server". The
- resulting archive file is close to 2MB in size. THE RESULT: somewhere
- around the middle of the script my NeXT freezes or enters panic mode.
-
- I would appreciate any help in this matter,
-
- -Eduardo Ostertag (ostertag@drinkme.cs.umd.edu)
-