On a 1.3K i386 system (kernel and userland from March 3rd), I am (well, was
till I stopped doing it!) seeing the similar hangs using amd (the
automounter relies on the NFS client in the kernel, no?).  The system would
work for cd'ing around, futzing with files manually, etc...but doing a
build, or accessing larger files (copying between machines from an amd
mounted dir) would hang the system.

I didn't feel like debugging, so I just un-amd'ed the system, and mount
things manually again. ;-)


----- Original Message -----
From: David Forbes <dmf20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: Rafal Boni <rafal@mediaone.net>
Cc: <current-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: NFS-related freezes in recent -currents?


>> The interesting thing is that cd'ing into each of the subdirs of /usr/src
>> make doing the 'make install'/'make includes' seemed to work (I say
seemed,
>> because I didn't descend into directories that had already been
completed,
>> so the total work wasn't as much as a whole-tree 'make install'/'make
includes'
>> would do).
>>
>> Anyone seem anything similar?? Should I file a PR?  Am I just losing my
mind?
>
>Yeah, I've had this trying to do exactly the same thing: mount /usr/src on
>a convenient machine.  I found that I could cd around and ls and so on,
>but when I attempted to do a make build it failed.
>
>Further investigation showed that it hung when doing actually reading a
>file.  Upgrading both machines to a consistent 1.3I allowed me to read
>small files, but make build still failed.
>
>1.3K is building on one machine as I write...
>
>David.
>
>PS - Both these machines are arm32.  One has an NE2000 clone and the other
>has a dec tulip card (IIRC).
>
>