Frank Cox wrote: > I have had this problem across several versions of Fedora, and maybe back into > Red Hat Linux 7,8,9 days. I can't exactly remember, but it's been a long time. > > When I first try to use a NFS share after not using it for a little while, it > takes several seconds up to about a minute before I get a response. After the > initial command has been executed, things seem to work well. > > Any idea what could be holding things up? I used to think that it was the other > machine going to sleep somehow, but I can ssh into it instantly anytime, so I > doubt that's the problem. > > Whenever I had such or similar problems the portmap service did not run on the client machine. Maybe you could have a look at this little beast? FMF