On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Gavan Fantom wrote:

> I've just experimented with an extra file in /etc/rc.d which just does an
> "ls /" and an "ls /dev"
>
> "ls /" works fine, "ls /dev" hangs the machine. tcpdump shows the
> following:
>
> [...]
>
> The machine hangs at this point.
>
> So it seems to me as if readdir causes problems on directories over a
> certain size. I'm compiling a new kernel with DDB in the hope that there
> is a key combination to drop into DDB on arm26, and also that putting in
> DDB doesn't prevent a multi-user boot due to lack of memory.

	Somewhat random thought - have you tried setting the NFS blocksize
	on that mount to very low, say 1K.

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