I have a total of 4 Linux machines (OK, some of them dual boot, but let's not talk about that) on a home/office LAN. One of them is a dedicated server, which offers some NFS exports.
Everything works very nicely, except that programs take forever to load the first time. Just to fire up a konsole can take 10 seconds plus - this on a machine rated at 2800 bogomips with lots of memory. After things have been up for a while (don't know how long, but many minutes at least), everything is quick again. Haven't tested exhaustively, but it seems that with the LAN unplugged, none of this applies. Monitoring with top doesn't reveal any CPU hogs - kapm-idled is getting almost everything, but I see the same behaviour on each client machine, so presumably the server is the common factor. Can any system admin gurus suggest a place for me to start looking? thanks /Brian
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