What's under the hood of your NFS server?
Its a Celeron with 512 MB or ram, not sure on the speed.
10 machines banging it at all at once will put produce some stress.
Yeah, but I've not seen anything like this before with similar situations...
Something just dawned on me while typing this. updatedb kicked off and my mozilla mail started to lag... The NFS server hadn't been up for long so I suppose anacron could have kicked off updatedb or some similar process, maybe something in gnome, could have kicked off and started monopolizing disk access on the server. That would explain why it would recur after about ten minutes running fine. I'll have to run another test... hopefully one where I can have the lab to myself for a few hours.
Increasing your nfsd daemons might also helpI raised the number of daemons and added 'async' to the export line as you described and it seemed to help, but ultimately, same result. Everything slowed to a crawl then all but stopped. Unless I can rule out my theory above, it may not be an NFS issue.
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Let us know how it goes.....
I'll let you know what I find.
- Johnathan
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