Bug 143

Summary: Processes using NFS (eg to link an X server) will sometimes hang.
Product: Base System Reporter: Stephen Hocking <sysseh>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Stephen Hocking 1995-01-14 21:00:00 UTC 
	When linking large programs on an NFS mounted filesystem, the linker
will sometimes hang without any NFS activity (as revealed by nfsstats)
taking place. It can be aborted by the interrupt character. The filesystem
in question is mounted with read & write sizes=1024, and has been operating
well  upto the time of the introduction of the merged buffer & VM cache.
This problem exhibits itself when the servers are fast or slow, and seems to
happen slightly more quickly when the NFS r/w sizes are at their default
(8k).

Fix: 

Unknown.
How-To-Repeat: 
Take XFree86 sound and attempt to build it all. Somewhere along the line
you'll see it stop. This has also been observed during a make world in
/usr/src, where /usr/obj was a NFS mounted FS. Altering the Xfree86 (where
both the sources and the objects were on the one NFS mounted filesystem) build
to have the Xservers written to /tmp did not appear to alter the problem.
Comment 1 Joerg Wunsch freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1995-04-03 21:23:00 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Stephen Hocking, who submitted the PR, claims 
it's fixed now.