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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5 NFS problems
Date: 5 Aug 1996 16:22:06 +0100
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Robert Withrow (bwithrow@baynetworks.com) wrote:
: We are experiencing a problem that we also had with 2.1,
: namely sporadic file lookup failures.  We are compiling
: large packages where the sources are on a SunOs 4.1.x system
: mounted via NFS.  Frequently the compiles fail due to
: missing .h files, but when the compile is restarted everything
: is fine.  This typically happens with files that were included
: by the file compiled just before (in fact, usually it happens 
: with files included by *all* modules in the makefile).

: Anyone else have this problem.  Anyone have a fix or a
: pointer to what the problem might be?

The only suggestion I have is to put a better NIC in your FreeBSD box.

If you havn't got one handy, before going out and buying one try
mounting your disks using wsize & rsize 1024, ie:

mount -t nfs -o -r=1024,-w=1024 sunmachine:/exported /mnt

This'll make your compiles start working if the performance of your
network card is the problem.....  If things don't work after doing
this, well, *shrug*.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....