[ale] NFS-client, real slow <--why ?

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at bellsouth.net
Thu Jul 22 00:40:46 EDT 1999


Is it slow when, say, telnetting as well?  I associate what you're describing
with a TCP/IP misconfig.  I got that kind of behavior from my two-machine
apartment LAN when the Linux machine's eth0 had multicast enabled (other
machine is Win95).  Turned off multicast, all was well again.



Courtney Thomas wrote:

> Greetings Once More !
>
> With SCO ODT as NFS server, with all clients but one, response to ........
> ls -l <while in the mounted dir>
> is satisfactory.
>
> But from one client, it takes a full minute to get a directory listing [I'm
> not exaggerating].
>
> What might be wrong and how do I fix ?
>
> Gratefully,
> Courtney






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