Subject: Re: NFS-related freezes in recent -currents?
To: Urban Boquist <boquist@cs.chalmers.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 03/10/1999 20:53:48
On Mar 10, Urban Boquist wrote
> Maybe, but I think there must also be some other problem with amd. At
> our site we have severe amd problems and we are not using TCP
> mounts.
> 
> We have a -current i386 machine that automounts home directories from
> a few Solaris servers (except for two home directories that it mounts
> from itself). This machine will reproducibly hang within a day or so
> if we try to use the amd in -current. Downgrading to amd-6.0a13 (from
> early August 1998) fixes the problem (it has worked for two weeks
> now).
> 

I have the same problem on a -current box, server is a FreeBSD 3.0.
I didn't try UDP mounts, but I'll do.

While we're at it, why is the default TCP ? As I understand it, UDP should
give better performances on a local network. Did I miss something ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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