Finally here is a long overdue summary of the problem.
Recap of problem:
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Sparc 20 ( 514 with 64 MB of memory ) would crash whenever NFS client also running Solaris 2.5 would fire up netscape.
Resolution:
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The problem turned out to be a problem related to the many small
packets that a web connection generates and the way the NFS connection
was being handled. There were a couple of patches applicable to the
problem which seems to have cured the problem for the time being.
Patch IDs:
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103169-06 pkt_len ip panic tcp performance ifconfig checksum NFS write fddi
103226-07 SunOS 5.5: /kernel/sys/nfs, /kernel/fs/nfs &
/kernel/misc/nfssrv fixes
Thanks to:
Mark Hargrave, Sr. ( meh@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov )
Casper Dik ( casper@holland.Sun.COM )
Ric Anderson <ric@rtd.com>
for their responses and especially to Casper who supplied the answer
and a really handy little script for analyzing system core dumps.
Wed Aug 28 09:03:32 EDT 1996
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Larry Chin {Larry_Chin@ca.cch.com} CCH Canadian Ltd.
Phone: 416-441-4001 ext. 349 6 Garamond Court
Fax: 416-441-3544 North York, Ontario, M3C 1Z5
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