On Sun May 7 2006 4:55 pm, Frank Cox wrote: > 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. > I've seen that sort of behavior in the past on a RHEL 4ES box. Nothing too beefy, but adequate enough--1gig uni-proc 2.4gig machine, IDE all the way, with only a single client connected. The delay from the initial `ls` and the file listing can be as long as ten-seconds. It seems to only happen (for me) when mounting a subdirectory of an exported file system. In otherwords, I'll export /a/sample/directory from the server, but I'll be mounting /a/sample/directory/further/below on the client. This is fairly common scenario, of course, when automounting /home directories using autofs. There may be some options one could change in the fstab file to fix this; It happens so infrequently that I haven't bothered to research it any further. DP ====================================================== David-Paul Niner, RHCE Orange Park, Florida United States of America dpniner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Public Key and fingerprint for GPG key 1FCE01A2 available from http://www.dpniner.name Free/Busy Information published at: https://horde.dpniner.name/kronolith/fb.php?u=dpniner ====================================================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
