[ale] Nfs mounts are EXTREMELY slow

[Jim Lynch]

Bob Toxen wrote:
> Verify that there isn't a DNS problem causing either the client or the
> server to wait for DNS to timeout before proceeding.
>
> Btw, this also is a common cause for email connections to one's server
> taking almost exactly 1 minute or 5 minutes to happen.
>
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> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:18:48AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
>   
>> Well, that may be a stretch, but a minute and 45 seconds is a long time, 
>> IMHO.  It's the same from two different systems. 
>>
>> The /etc/exports file:
>> /data1/mail/db     192.168.2.50(rw,sync) 192.168.2.44(rw,sync)
>>
>> The fstab on the system trying to mount:
>>
>> 192.168.2.90:/data1/mail/db    /var/lib/omega/data   nfs    
>> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,noauto
>>
>> Output of 'time mount /var/lib/omega/data'
>>
>> real    1m45.887s
>> user    0m0.000s
>> sys     0m0.022s
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong?   I don't see anything funny in any log. 
>>
>> Jim.
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Nothing else wrt networking seems slow.  The resolv.conf is pointing to 
my westell modem and that just bounces to bellsouth's servers.  I can 
ping, ssh, wget pretty much whatever I want from all the systems without 
delay.  Is there something specific I could look for?

Jim.