What's under the hood of your NFS server? 10 machines banging it at all at once will put produce some stress. Increasing your nfsd daemons might also help ------------------- /etc/init.d/nfs ------------------- ##### Original line. #[ -z "$RPCNFSDCOUNT" ] && RPCNFSDCOUNT=8 #### Changed count to 32 [ -z "$RPCNFSDCOUNT" ] && RPCNFSDCOUNT=32 ------------------------------ Change your exports might also help ----- begin /etc/exports ----- /var/ftp/pub *(ro,async) ----- end /etc/exports ----- Let us know how it goes.....