Hey Folks,
Our Alphas are ceasing to provide certain functionality whenever an nfs
file system server goes down. On occasions, it will lock up the machine
completely. This feature has endured across 2 versions of OSF, 2.0 and
3.2, so my first guess is that its either OSF, or an NFS switch that needs
to be set. I am using the usual mount parameters; eg. from fstab:
/data0_at_csrp /data0 nfs rw,bg 0 0
The Alphas are model 3000/600 at OSF/1 v3.2. The file system servers are
these Alphas and IBM RS6000's running AIX 3.2.5. The AIX machines do not
have this problem. On both platforms, nfs dutifully announces that a
server is not responding, etc. But the Alphas are, in addition, hanging on
most commands, which will continue processing as soon as the server is
brought back on line and servicing client requests.
What is happening here? What should be done to correct it?
-Neil
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Neil R. Smith, Research Assoc./Comp.Sys.Mngr. neils_at_csrp.tamu.edu
Climate System Research Program 409/862-4342
Dept. of Meteorology, Texas A&M Univ., USA 409/862-4132 FAX
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Received on Thu Aug 17 1995 - 18:53:24 NZST