Subject: Re: Uninterruptible wait lockup.
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/24/1995 17:59:48
> Everything I've seen leads me to believe that paging and/or swapping
> over NFS simply does not work.  When I made /usr/src an NFS mount and
> started doing "make build"s, I saw things crashing and hanging right
> and left - I eventually had to go back to ufs-mounted /usr/src (this
> was before ufs->ffs).

If this is a problem on the sparc, it's certainly not a problem on (at
least some) other ports.  I _only_ use NFS-mounted /usr/src trees on
my alphas, and i've seen few problems with it.


chris