Re: NFS problem

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 10:39:45AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 
> > I should mention that the I/O error comes from the C preprocessor in
> > gcc whild building glibc 2.1 with the source code on the NFS server.
> > There are many -Ixxxx in CFLAGS in the glibc build. It seems like an
> > interaction between the C preprocessor and many directory/file lookup
> > from client to server. Maybe the Linux NFS server and/or client perform
> > poorly with many directory/file lookup in a very short time. Has anyone
> > tried to compile glibc 2.1 with the source code on the NFS server?
> 
> I've built glibc 2.0.x on diskless machines running older 2.1.x kernels.
> Sometimes a hickup but usually works and the performance is extremly
> low.  With my 486DX/33, 8mb as server the build process takes roughly
> 24h; the client configuration has only a small influence on the performance.

It was my fault. I mounted the source with "soft". After changing it
to "bg,intr", everything seems fine now.

Thanks.

H.J.