Hi,
I have 2 machines one an XP1000 running Tru64 V5.0A and another a
AlphaStation 200 4/233 running Tru64 V5.1. I have not applied any patches to
either system. The problem I am experiencing is that someone starts up a
multiple file copy, usually from the XP to the 200 over nfs, and then it
would appeat that things start to clag up. If I try to logon to the XP using
rlogin from my PC, it usally puts up the motd and then appears to get stuck.
After a little while it puts up a message saying something like "Waiting for
nfs2 server on the XP". The eventually the logon completes and at the logon
screen the machine appears to be travelling quite comfortably (ie there is
no wait while it does a "ps -ef", or some other application). However if I
logout and attempt to logon then the same wait after the motd re-occurs. So
then from /sbin/init.d I did an "nfsmount stop; nfs stop; nfs start;
nfsmount start", and what do you know I can then logout and log back in
without the wait.
I should add that automount managers the connections on both machines. All
mounts are listed in a /etc/auto.direct file.
What to do??.
(a) Well I was wondering about nfs3, what is it, is it better than nfs2, how
do I force nfs3 connections.
(b) upgrade the XP1000 to Tru64 V5.1 (can't go to V5.1A, because I don't
have a work around for the fact that ERDAS/Imagine8.4 does not work on
V5.1A)
(c) apply patches.
(d) get rid of automount and use nfs.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Dennis
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Dennis Macdonell
Systems Administrator
National Mapping Division, Geoscience Australia
mail: PO Box 2, Belconnen, ACT 2617
email: mcdonell_at_auslig.gov.au
ph: 61 2 6201 4326
fax: 61 2 6201 4377
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Received on Thu Mar 21 2002 - 04:47:50 NZST