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From: "M.Sapsed" <iss081@bangor.ac.uk.nospam>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 2.2.1/amd problems
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 11:38:03 +0100
Organization: University of Wales, Bangor.
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Hi,

I've just installed 2.2.1 (from 1 of the UK mirrors) on an ageing
486DX33 box (20mb ram, twin 200mb ide hard drives). I now find that when
running e.g. more or vi there is a noticeable pause before anything
appears on the screen. More of a problem is that my automounted (via
amd) home directory fails to appear when doing an ls or anything else,
although it is mounted and ls of small subdirectories works fine. The
home directory has 221 entries and another subdirectory which fails has
162 (I know they're large but they should work!) If I ask for ls on
these dirs, it just sits there for about 30 mins until a message

/kernel: nfs server server:/path/path: not responding

appears. If you then do ctrl-C you get a prompt back and can get an
instant listing of the smaller directories.

This is with both the GENERIC kernel and one -c'ed down to the minimum.
The amd command line is similar to the default in sysconfig (just
changed to use a NIS map). 

Neither problem (the pause or amd) was present when the machine ran
2.1.7.1 (I've swapped back on forth several times recently trying
things).

Anyone got any suggestions as to what's going on here?

Cheers,

Martin

P.S. No comments about the hardware please! I know its far from optimal
but the box is only for testing things.

P.P.S. remove .nospam from return address to reply by e-mail.

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