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Is there anyway to set dynamically set dhcp options when chain loading another pxe boot loader? I'm setting up a pxelinux network install server and one operating system I want to support is freebsd. Freebsd has its own pxe loader called pxeboot that you can use. You just have to boot it from tftp and set the root-path dhcp option (option 17) to the location of your nfs server with the

...strange problems is that NFS activity passed from about... 5mbps to more than 70Mpbs... Is there any reasons about that ? OS: FreeBSD 6.2-p11 / x86 Dovecot : 1.0.13 (freebsd ports) Auth: ldap based Nfs mail spool : filer:/vol/vol0/mail /var/mailusers nfs rw,nfsv3,mntudp,bg,noatime,nolockd 0 0 Thanks, /Xavier

I'm running a few servers sitting on top of a NetAPP file server ? everything runs great, but periodically I'm getting: nfs_getpages: error 13 vm_fault: pager read error, pid 11355 (https) errors on my screen ? not always same pid ? the annoying part is that it seems to always affect the same jail that is running .. if I shutdown all jails on that physical server, everything shuts down

...d be wrong and I can test a patch or if it's something else, because I'm not a kernel expert. :-) I have run several procstat -kk on the processes including the ls which deadlocked. You can see them here: http://pastebin.com/1RPnFT6r I have tried to mount the file system with and without nolockd. It didn't make a difference. Other than that it is mounted with: rw,nfsv3,tcp,noatime,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 Let me know if you need me to do something else or if some other output is required. I would have to go back to the problem kernel and wait until the deadlock occurs to get that info...