nfs client problems (readdirplus & commit)

2009-12-16 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
hi all, i've been seeing some performance problems with openbsd 4.5 as nfs client. i've now installed current and the symptoms persist: 1. the attributes returned in readdirplus by the server are not used. e.g. for an "ls -l" on an nfs directory, openbsd will do a "readdirplus" transaction, fol

rfork procs blocking on fd_lock due to so_linger

2009-10-06 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
hi all, the following is on openbsd 4.5, on i386. i recently had a problem with a program that seemed to be hanging. top showed procs many procs in the "fdlock" state, which i hadn't seen before. the program that was blocking was inferno. inferno uses rfork (inferno is closely related to plan