amd is slow / hangs

by Gordon Wats » Tue, 14 Jan 1992 21:29:34

I am having troubles trying to get amd (the automounter) to work
properly.

I have upgraded some Sun3 machines running SunOS 4.1 to Sun4c
machines running SunOS 4.1.1. Using the same amd mount tables I find
that amd will either 1) take ages (30 seconds) to mount a filesystem,
or 2) can hang altogether (all weekend). I'm using the same mount
tables as were used before the upgrade with lines like:

atlas1 type:=nfs;rfs:=${path};rhost:=atlas

My questions are:

1) Any ideas what might be going wrong?

2) What is the correct install procedure for amd? Which directories
must your create yourself and which does amd create for you
(/home, /home/user1, etc.)

I am using amd version 5.2.

Thanks,

Gordon

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1. SCO 5.0.2 NSF is slow - VERY slow What am I doing wrong??

I have two machines with OpenServer 5.0.2 connected by TCP/IP. rcp works,
rlogin works, telnet works, and ftp works. But when I tried to experiemnt with
nsf I found out that it is slow - very slow.

This is my PCs' specs.

pasta (pasta.takadom.org) 134.1.1.2
Pent-75
1.6GB/32MB
SMC 8432BT
/etc/exports
/u

sushi (sushi.takadom.org) 134.1.1.1
586-133
2.5GB/16MB
Intel EtherExpress 16
/etc/exports
/v

On sushi, I login as root and type "mount pasta:/u /usr/takakami/tempmount"

Response:
WARNING: NFS server pasta not responding, still trying
WARNING: NFS server pasta ok

This takes 5 minutes. (from my command to getting a prompt back)

mount
/on /dev/root read/write on ******
/stand on ****************
/u on *********************
/v on ********************
/usr/takakami/tempmount on pasta:/u read/write on ******************

This is immediate.

Then I do
cd/usr/takakami/tempmount

I go get my coffee, pick up my laundries..... 10 minutes later I get
#

Then I do l

Response
WARNING: NFS server pasta not responding, still trying
WARNING: NFS server pasta ok
WARNING: NFS server pasta not responding, still trying
WARNING: NFS server pasta ok

10 minutes later, I hit {del} to abort
#

After setting up tcp/ip to be able to do rcp, rlogin, telnet, ftp, the only
file I changed (added) was /etc/exports file.

I verified mountd, nfsd, pcnfsd, and biod was running. Accroding to several
past posts, nfs get defined default when one install OpenServer 5.0.2.

What am I doing wrong here?

The situation is similar the other way around (trying to nfs mount /v on sushi
from pasta)

Thanks!

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