Jim Bernard wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:52:04PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> > If it's really the problem, can you try mount_nfs -X ?
> 
>   I expect it was Murray you were suggesting this to.  But I checked
> anyway, and FWIW using -X does fix the problem for me (which is now that
> some files are not found, rather than that netscape and acroread hang when
> started).

There was a kernel change meanwhile, which changed the behaviour
so that now it would display incomplete directory rather than loop
endlessly. This isn't related to mount_nfs -X as far as I can tell,
just newer kernel.

Jaromir
 
> --Jim
> 
> > Jim Bernard wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:14:08PM +1000, Murray Armfield wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > > 	I'm trying to get some of my linux apps going, which haven't worked since 
> > > > going to 2.4.18 emulation and 7.3 suse pkgsrc on my i386 current machine 
> > > > (20020610).
> > > > 	In particular I'm trying forte4java community edition from Sun, and limewire 
> > > > a filesharing app. Both of them start and then just hang. Killable 'thou. If 
> > > > I look at systat -w 1 vmstat, I can see most time has gone from user to 
> > > > system and there are a very large number of traps and page faults going on 
> > > > until app is killed. Seems like some kind of loop.
> > > > 	Has anyone else seen this type of thing? Any known probs on linux emulation 
> > > > on i386?
> > > 
> > >   This sounds similar to problems reported in PR's 16342 and 16349.  Tron has
> > > suggested disabling linux_sys_getdents64 as a temporary workaround (see the
> > > PR's), and it worked for me.  If it's the same problem, downgrading SUSE to
> > > 6.4 also works.
> 


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