[ILUG] NFS advice

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Kevin Philp wrote:

> I have changed the mounts to to tcp and added the no_subtree_check 
> to the server. I have also disabled IPV6 on the desktops anyway...

IPv6 will make 0 difference to NFS.

> so far no complaints. I am wondering if the last "its slow" 
> complaint was justified!! The system seems to work fine and then 
> one of the desktops will just grind to a halt. For example - 
> usually to open OpenOffice takes a few seonds, this can increase to 
> 45 seconds when the system "plays up" and KDE can take 5-10 seconds 
> to open a menu. Checking top I don't see much activity so its not 
> an issue with desktop cpu or memory resources. Most frustrating of 
> all its intermittent. A reboot clears the problem. It might not 
> raise its head for hours or even days.

Sounds like you're running out of memory. OpenOffice particularly is 
a bit of a hog. How much RAM do these machines have?

> The server is Mandrake 9.1 (nfs v2)
>
> The desktops are Mandrake 10.2

Says nothing to me, I was curious about kernel version really.

regards,
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