NFS problem

[ralf@uni-koblenz.de]

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.

  Ralf