Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark C wrote: It feels like a client issue, as RedHat on the client works great. I just realized that Mark pointed out that you were running NFSpv2 instead of NFSpv3. That could make a big difference. Check your kernel versions. Here is the decoder ring. I think. But the this has been my

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Bob Proulx said on Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:12:20AM -0600: So you might try an upgrade to 2.4.20 in order to get the new code. Thinking about this with the information so far and this is my best guess. Unfortunately, 2.4.20 is not available prebuilt for woody directly, it is in sarge. So

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/06/03 11:12), Bob Proulx wrote: Mark C wrote: It feels like a client issue, as RedHat on the client works great. I just realized that Mark pointed out that you were running NFSpv2 instead of NFSpv3. That could make a big difference. Check your kernel versions. Here is the decoder

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Mark said on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:32:07AM +0100: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:01, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Just a guess: I have 4 of these entries... and I'm pretty sure that you're supposed to have more than one kernel NFS thread on the server. Are you using the userspace NFS server?

Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-04 Thread Mark C
Hi, I'm posting this as a last resort, as I'm now at my wits end, after several hrs googling and reading the man pages, I'm still no closer to solving this mystery. My NFS server is running stock woody (with all updates) and exporting several shares, a few for public access and one for the /home

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Mark C said on Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:40:13PM +0100: I have woody running perfectly, yet it takes an age to read/write any files from my nfs server, where as redhat is (for nfs clients anyway) blistering fast, I have tried several wsize and rsize options, but its still very slow, I'm

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-04 Thread Support
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:09, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Are you running portmap on the client and server? Yes Are you sure that portmap knows about the NFS progs (what does pmap_dump tell you?) It would seem so, as her is the output regarding on both the client and server: Client: # pmap_dump

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Support said on Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:40:02PM +0100: Server: #pmap_dump 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 132 udp 2049 nfs ^ ^ Just a guess: I have 4 of these entries... and I'm pretty sure

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-04 Thread Mark
doh! sorry for the last post, I sent it from the wrong address, I was checking the support email at the same time.. Anyway, I have done a bit more investigation, and it seems that I only get the slowdown if I write TO the nfs server from the client, As I copied some large binaries across to the

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-04 Thread Mark
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:01, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Just a guess: I have 4 of these entries... and I'm pretty sure that you're supposed to have more than one kernel NFS thread on the server. Are you using the userspace NFS server? How would I tell that? (sorry to sound silly) I basically

Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) server (woody)

2003-06-04 Thread Mark C
Bob Proulx wrote: What does your /etc/exports on your server say? Does it say 'sync' or 'async' for export options? At the top of my head I cannor remeber, will check it out, but personally, It feels like a client issue, as RedHat on the client works great. Just as an aside you might check