Hello! After changing kernels from 2.2.17 to 2.2.18 I found that NFS mounts now take ages. (Well, 15 seconds.) With 2.2.17, they went through in about half a second. Once the mount is done, all operations seem to run with the usual speed. The client is vanilla 2.2.18, the server is vanilla 2.2.17. The fs to mount from the server is reiserfs, as is the mount point on the client. Both machines are connected to each other and nothing else. I tried 2.2.18's nfs module both with and without NFSv3 support. syslog on the client: Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9814]: attempting to mount entry /mnt/mp3 Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: lookup(file): looking up mp3 Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: lookup(file): mp3 -> -ro,rsize=8192^I Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: parse(sun): expanded entry: -ro,rsize Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: parse(sun): dequote("ro,rsize=8192^I^ Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: parse(sun): gathered options: ro,rsiz Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: parse(sun): dequote("ser1:/mnt/mp3") Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: parse(sun): core of entry: options=ro Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: parse(sun): mounting root /mnt, mount Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: mount(nfs): root=/mnt name=mp3/ what Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: mount(nfs): nfs options="ro,rsize=819 Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: mount(nfs): calling mkdir_path /mnt/m Dec 13 21:26:22 christian automount[9964]: mount(nfs): calling mount -t nfs -s - Dec 13 21:26:22 christian kernel: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel Dec 13 21:26:27 christian kernel: portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) Dec 13 21:26:37 christian automount[9964]: mount(nfs): mounted ser1:/mnt/mp3 on Dec 13 21:26:37 christian kernel: portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) syslog on the server: Dec 13 21:26:23 ser1 mountd[153]: NFS mount of /mnt/mp3 attempted from 192.168.0.2 Dec 13 21:26:23 ser1 mountd[153]: /mnt/mp3 has been mounted by 192.168.0.2 The server's clock is about one second ahead, so it looks as if the server completed the job in the same second, and the client slept for a while. The mount process stayed in D state all the time. -- Christian Ullrich Registrierter Linux-User #125183 "Sie können nach R'ed'mond fliegen -- aber Sie werden sterben" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/