Re: Strange behaviour on 4.99.53

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Feb 8, 2008, at 10:03, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I've seen similar "stalls" when gzip is trying to uncompress a file  
> located on an NFS-mounted file system.

Confirmed. Since the vmlocking2 branch was merged I get occasional  
nfs-related deadlocks on SMP macppc - didn't see them on my single  
processor machines but they're nowhere near as busy as my dual G4.

> And recently (since installing 4.99.53 yesterday) I'm occassionally  
> seeing long waits for pine to access my mailbox - up to 1 minute or  
> more in one case.
>
> Has anyone else seen similar behavior?  Any clues on how to track  
> down the cause of this slowness?

Probably locking fallout, people are working on it and I bet it will  
be fixed pretty soon.

have fun
Michael
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