On Jan 13, 10:19am, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> 	I've been doing a lot of compiling on an NFS mounted
> partition and have noticed some wierd things.  Sometimes when
> linking I'll get an 'I/O Error' and gcc will crap out.  If
> I just run it again, all works fine.  My best guess is this is
> an NFS problem, since I've never seen that behavior compiling
> on a local disk.  Also, twice while compiling now the machine
> has rebooted for no good reason.  That problem might be NFS
> related too.  Unfortunately I haven't been at the console
> when it happens to see any messages.
> 
> 	Has anyone seen similar problems with NFS/heavy IO?
> I'm mounting off an Ultrix 4.4 box if it makes any difference.

I can only say I've seen the same behavior (mounting off a 4.4 box
as well), but I've never looked into it.

Simon.