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- From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
- Subject: Re: HP 7xx problem with virtual memory (thrashing)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.193208.22963@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
- References: <1993Jan5.194958.10898@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <C0G4A1.L9r@fc.hp.com>
- Distribution: comp.sys.hp
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:32:08 GMT
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- In article <C0G4A1.L9r@fc.hp.com> craig@fc.hp.com (Craig Bryant) writes:
- > There is a memory leak associated with NFS in HP-UX 8.07. It is
- > fixed by patch PHKL_1602. It is also fixes in HP-UX 9.0. The leak
- > only occurs with some non-HP machines as clients that do reads in
- > sizes greater than the block size of the server file system. It can
- > also occur if a CDROM file system is export through NFS. In both
- > cases it only occurs if the read returns 0 bytes. For example, when
- > reading a 16k file the reads will normally be done in 8k chunks and
- > the third read will return 0 bytes.
-
- We have Domain/OS, SGI and IBM/AIX systems that get files from our 7x0
- systems, and we export our CDROM to all other HP systems so they have
- access to LaserROM. Thanks for clearing that up - now I need to get
- the patch, since 9.0 hasn't showed up yet.
- --
- core error - bus dumped -*- Mike Peterson, SysAdmin, U/Toronto Chemistry
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