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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1043 ; Thu, 11 Feb 93 05:01:14 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!news.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!terra.stack.urc.tue.nl!tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl!jim From: jim@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: NFS Problem, mounting from a SUN Message-ID: <1l9arj$2mf@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> Date: 9 Feb 93 22:22:43 GMT References: <1993Feb4.101107.26293@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Organization: Baseline Labs. Eindhoven Holland Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: shark.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] John Strikos (strikos@leto.informatik.uni-bonn.de) wrote: : Hello there, : I just installed 386BSD on an 486DX machine. Everything went : fine till I tried to mount a filesystem per NFS from a SUN. : I can mount the filesystem and do "ls" but when I try to : read a file, the system hangs for a while, telling me : "nsf server .... not responding..." Sometimes the system panics saying : trap type 12 ... : I checked to see if my server is responding (using etherfind) and he doesn't. : I really don't know what I am doing wrong :-) Can anybody give me a hint? This is a known problem. To solve it, just incease the nfs blocksize of the Sun. Your 386bsd machine is not fast enough to keep up with the Sun. Jim.