On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 04:11, Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > I have a network with two computers, connected through a switch. One > machine runs Radhat 9 and is an NFS server, the other machine used to > run Redhat 9 and mounted an NFS volume on the server. No problems with > that setup. > > Recently I upgraded the second machine (the client) to Fedora Core 2. > Now NFS performance is really slow. I checked the connections and > noticed that other protocols do not have the problem (FTP is lightning > fast). So it has to be the NFS implementation of Fedora Core 2. > > I cannot upgrade the second machine to FC2 since it requires special > hardware drivers not available for 2.6 kernels. > > Strangely enough I could not find a similar problem in any mailing list. > > I tried different mount options (rsize, wsize) but nothing changed. This > is what the /proc/mounts says about my NFS mount: > > 192.168.2.2:/mnt/media /mnt/media nfs > rw,v3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,udp,lock,addr=192.168.2.2 0 0 > > I hope any of you knows where to look for a solution, since this problem > makes my computing environment pretty useless. I also noticed it was slow. I did a rough calculation and I remember thinking it was much worse than 1/10 the speed of what it should do. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>
