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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (Randy Howard)
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Subject: Re: lockd sources
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Date: 1 Sep 92 21:49:12 GMT
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damon@netcom.com (Damon Skaggs) writes:


>I have having terrible problems slowness problems in lockd.  Is there
>any PD implementation of lockd available to see if I can figure out 
>what is going on?  BTW, does BSDI have lockd?

This is a well-known problem with the USL lockd.  It is very slow, and 
in a lot of cases, broken.  I think all SVR4 vendors will have this 
problem unless someone has managed to fix it.

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Randy Howard            _o	    @'s: jrh@dell.com
Dell Computer Corp.     \<,	    !'s: ...!uunet!dellunix!jrh
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