Subject: Re: Uninterruptible wait lockup.
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/24/1995 11:53:59
On Sun, 24 Dec 1995, der Mouse wrote:
> Everything I've seen leads me to believe that paging and/or swapping
> over NFS simply does not work. When I made /usr/src an NFS mount and
> started doing "make build"s, I saw things crashing and hanging right
> and left - I eventually had to go back to ufs-mounted /usr/src (this
> was before ufs->ffs).
>
> Looking into this is something I hope to get around to, but don't hold
> yer breath. :-/
Interesting. We run several compleatly diskless clients and one wich only
hase local root+swap, the whole /usr is nfs-mounted. No problems with
either.
Peter