On Sun, 07 May 2006 15:46:01 -0500 Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What are command are you issuing that you are calling the initial > command? Anything at all that accesses the NFS share. Examples: ls /mnt/webserver/home/www cp /mnt/webserver/home/www/index.html /home/backupwww Whatever. The first access to the NFS share takes a very long time. After that, things respond as they should. Then, after not accessing the share for several minutes or hours, it's back to waiting for the initial access to go through again. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://theatre.sasktelwebsite.net