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From: vikki@e40-008-10.MIT.EDU (Vikki King)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] NFS patches, anyone?
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ade@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Adrian Collins) writes:
: I'm currently running 386BSD on my Olivetti M380 and I am generally happy
: with it.  Thank Bill & Lynne.
: However, there is one annoying problem with NFS.  NFS hangs when reading
: or writing a large file using NFS, this makes life difficult as I dont
: have the space available to experience the torments of X.
: I have already reduced the NFS read & write buffers originally to 4K and
: now down to 1K without any significant difference.
: Has anybody got any ideas?

He-Hey!! I'm having the same trouble.  I posted about it, got a couple of
suggestions for fixes, but, no luck.  I'd be very interested in hearing of
any other people with this trouble or with a fix :-).  For the record, I am
running a Novell 3.11 server with Novell NFS 1.1.  My 386bsd box is an Everex
386/25 w/16MB RAM and 150MB IDE disk.  I already tried playing with the buffer
sizes (helped when I initially tried NFS reads - the problem was pretty severe,
now it doesn't happen as much with rsize/wsize=4096).  I tried applying the
patches that some people suggested too.

-John
jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu