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I had just configured a NFS server on eDesktop 2.4 and tried a NFS client
on Redhat 6.1 to mount it.  But I found that the speed was slow.  Slow
means for 2 cases:

1.  The first time to access the directory, there were several seconds
    of delay.
2.  During vi of a file, the response was slow

I checked with ps -ef on the NFS server and found:

root       632     1  0 17:09 ?        00:00:00 nfsd 4
root      1013   632  0 17:14 ?        00:00:00 nfsd 4
root      1014   632  0 17:14 ?        00:00:00 nfsd 4
root      1015   632  0 17:14 ?        00:00:00 nfsd 4

Is it the only reason is there're too few daemons are running ?
How can I increase it ?  How to calculate how much is the best
(opt for speed) ?

Thanks, rgds

SK

This may not help you but... NFS connection speed will be greatly hampered
if the NFS serving computer does not know the name of the client making a
request. If you are not using a DNS on your LAN, if your IP address are
assigned and static, make sure that your NFS server has an entry in it's
/etc/hosts file for each client that wants to make a connection. My
/etc/hosts file is this.
192.168.0.2             Jason.Ept               Jason
192.168.0.5             sasquatch.EPT           sasquatch
192.168.0.80            StoVoKor.Ept            StoVoKor
192.168.0.86            OlympusMons.Ept         OlympusMons
192.168.0.89            UtopiaPlanitia.Ept      UtopiaPlanitia
192.168.0.200           Brother.lpd             Brother
192.168.0.250           KVort.Ept               KVort
192.168.0.254           Gateway.gwr             Gateway

If connection speed is not the problem but transfer speed it I would look
at hardware as the problem.

: This may not help you but... NFS connection speed will be greatly hampered
: if the NFS serving computer does not know the name of the client making a
: request. If you are not using a DNS on your LAN, if your IP address are
: assigned and static, make sure that your NFS server has an entry in it's
: /etc/hosts file for each client that wants to make a connection. My
: /etc/hosts file is this.
: 192.168.0.2             Jason.Ept               Jason

I have something similar.  But just the name may not be exactly the
one used in the client machine.  The reason was historical.  I think
that shouldn't be a problem, right ?

: If connection speed is not the problem but transfer speed it I would look
: at hardware as the problem.

I think the hardware is OK, its a P3 733MHz/128MB/18GB running the
OpenLinux 2.4 .  I found the newer distribution of Linux suffer from
similar problem of Mac OS and Windoze - big and slow.

SK

| I had just configured a NFS server on eDesktop 2.4 and tried a NFS client
| on Redhat 6.1 to mount it.  But I found that the speed was slow.  Slow
| means for 2 cases:
|
| 1.  The first time to access the directory, there were several seconds
|     of delay.
| 2.  During vi of a file, the response was slow

You probably need to be specifying the rsize=8192 wsize=8192 options in
/etc/fstab for all of your NFS mounted filesystems.

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