All set! Sun-managers does it again. Thanks to all.
The essence of my question was:
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|We're running 4.1.1 on Sun3, 3x, 4 and 4c platforms, with the following
|set of patches installed:
|
| 100173-06: NFS jumbo patch
| <and many others - list deleted>
|
|The problem, simply put, is that we're being deluged, inundated, and
|otherwise swamped by .nfs* files. Not only that, but we're generating
|a lot of them.
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THE ANSWER: I got 10 people all telling me the same thing, patch 100173-06
has a bug, get 100173-07 and everything will be fine.
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|BUGID: 1070654 (Nov-5-91)
| When files are recreated, it is marked as being in use such
| that removal of the file results in a .nfsXXX file being created
| and unmount is not possible.
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Thanks to:
Michael.Meyers@Corp.Sun.COM (Michael Meyers)
blc@sol.med.ge.com (Brett Chapman x7-4391)
Tim Rylance <tkr@praxis.co.uk>
Steve Lodin <deaes!swlodin@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@malmo.trab.se>
James Pearson <jcpearso@ps.ucl.ac.uk>
John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu>
scott-allendorf@uiowa.edu (Scott Allendorf)
"Paul (Cliffy) Palmer" <palmer@pluto.lab.oasis.contel.com>
Special thanks to Brett Chapman who actually sent me the
current version of this patch.
I also got this note from stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern), referring
to something that sounds like a different bug/patch. Anyone else having
a similar problem after ruling out an old version of 100173 might find
this useful:
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|there's a bug that causes .nfsXXX files to be generated by
|a hyperactive nfs client side (:-)).
|
|i think there's a patch but i don't have the number handy
|(might be 100424, but i don't really remember).
|
|--hal
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Other responses from
Teresa.Beyer@EBay.Sun.COM (Terry Beyer)
mp@allegra.att.com (Mark Plotnick)
macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)
sjc@hyperion.haystack.edu (Steve Cariglia)
David Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes)
mks!andy@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Andy Toy)
Chip Christian <chip@allegra.att.com>
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