[ILUG] NFS advice

[Kevin Philp]

Paul Jakma wrote:
> 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?

500mb for the desktops and 700mb for the server. The server flies all 
the time, its just the desktops. I checked one of the complainers and 
they were editing a 10MB OpenOffice presentation! That took time to load 
even on the local hard drive.
>
>> 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.

I am not in the office now but the server is a 2.4 kernel, can remember 
exactly and the desktops are 2.6.8 if memory serves me correctly.

I will see what happens next week.
>
> regards,