On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> > > Well, I tried going to multi-user after I'd enabled swap, but sh dumped
> > > core processing the rc scripts (this was using a userland from the latest
> > > snapshot - I still want to try a more recent cross-built userland before
> > > I start panicing about this).
> > Ah.  That looks like you're in about the same state as me, then.  Have you
> > got root on NFS?  For some reason, writing over NFS seems to be flakey at
> > the moment, which makes getting valid coredumps to debug difficult.
>
> Yes, currently, I have root on NFS. Is it just root on NFS, or swapping over
> NFS? If the latter, I might try to get local swap setup.

I'm not sure if swapping over NFS is reliable or not.  I haven't tested it
lately.

> One thing I forgot to mention is that taking out the 'ea' bug workaround
> improves things *enormously*.

Is that the one reducing the NFS read/write sizes?  I think that's
unnecessary anyway (and the bug was a poor interaction between my Ether3
and my EtherExpress PRO/10+).

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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