HJ Lu (Linux NFS maintainer) spent a lot of time troubleshooting this and found the problem. In my Solaris auto.home nis map I had 'timeo=300'. This had no adverse effect when using NFSv3/TCP but caused the "can't get a request slot" error when using NFSv3/UDP. Thanks again HJ! michael On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Michael Kriss wrote: > > Didn't see an archive anywhere so I'm not sure if this issue has been raised yet > or not... > > I have a Solaris NFS server and a Linux NFS client. The NFS server has an > auto.home yp map and the client can successfully mount. The problem is that > during a make in the mounted directory the compile hangs and the "can't get a > request slot" error is generated. > > The reason I'm posting to the autofs list is because this ONLY happens through > the automounter. I can manually mount the directory with the same parameters > and there is no hang and no error. Another important fact is that it only > happens using UDP. TCP through the automounter does not cause the hang nor the > error. I've tried different wsize,rsize on the client with no difference. Any > suggestions? > > Setup: > > Solaris NFS server > ------------------ > Solaris 2.7 > Ultra1 > > Linux NFS client > ---------------- > I've tried various kernels but am currently running 2.2.17-0.17smp (this is one > of HJLu's kernels) with autofs-4.0.0pre7-23.0.3. > > michael > > >
