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George Harvey wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:49:02 +0200
> Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:
> 
>>If the problem is reception, then this is usually the trick you need.
>>If data transmitted to the VAX is in more segments than the receive 
>>buffers, then it will basically never succeed. One or another of the 
>>segments will always be lost.
>>
>>However, I think that George thought his problem was transmissions, in
>> which case this won't help. But he might be wrong, so it's worth a
>> try...
> 
> I think it is a transmit problem so I've tried reducing the NFS write
> size to 2K and haven't had any lockups yet. However, I'm now getting
> file corruption instead :( Building pkgtools/digest fails with syntax
> errors during the configure stage, looking at the configure file I see
> that it has chunks missing and is much shorter than it should be. The
> same source, on the same server, builds with no problems on my SGI
> Challenge S so I'm fairly confident that it's not a bug on the server.
> I'll do some more investigating...

I also have file corruption issues, and I'm using a local disk, so 
that's not NFS-related (if we're seeing the same thing that is).
Some parts gets filled with NULs instead of the correct contents when 
files are created.

	Johnny

> 
> Thanks,
> George
> 
> 
>>	Johnny
>>
>>Ken Seefried wrote:
>>
>>>George Harvey writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'd
>>>>particularly like to get NFS working, are there any
>>>
>>>patches/workrounds > that might help?
>>>
>>>
>>>Not that I've got insight this particular problem, and this won't
>>>get to  your root cause, but my personal first dirty trick to NFS
>>>problems is to  reduce the NFS read and write block size to 4K, 2K
>>>or 1K.  Might let you  limp along until you figure out what's really
>>>wrong. Ken
>>

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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt@softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

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