On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:35:46PM +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: > > On 20 Aug 2009, at 12:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > >On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >>On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote: > >>>On 20 Aug 2009, at 08:25, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >>>>This is running in 6.2 ish using 4BSD, I was under the impression > >>>>ULE wasn't very stable in 6.2. > >>>> > >>>>I could probably try it though... > >>> > >>>Hmm. ISTR having similar problems around the 6.1-2 era. You might > >>>try 6.4 if that's possible for you. > >> > >>Someone is going to visit it, but if I can't solve it remotely I'll > >>probably just update it to 7.2 or so. > > > >What sort of problems did you have BTW? > > Things like ls on the console might take several seconds to respond > when the box didn't seem to be very busy (but wasn't idle, maybe > serving a little NFS). It wasn't the shell getting swapped out or > anything else obvious. This was on SMP, not using X. The problem went > away with 6.4R (had to stay with 6.x for unrelated reasons).
6.1 was released with a bug in NFS server, causing serious slowdown when non-MPSAFE fs was exported.
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