[ale] Nfs mounts are EXTREMELY slow

[Bob Toxen]

Verify that there isn't a DNS problem causing either the client or the
server to wait for DNS to timeout before proceeding.

Btw, this also is a common cause for email connections to one's server
taking almost exactly 1 minute or 5 minutes to happen.

Bob Toxen
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:18:48AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Well, that may be a stretch, but a minute and 45 seconds is a long time, 
> IMHO.  It's the same from two different systems. 
> 
> The /etc/exports file:
> /data1/mail/db     192.168.2.50(rw,sync) 192.168.2.44(rw,sync)
> 
> The fstab on the system trying to mount:
> 
> 192.168.2.90:/data1/mail/db    /var/lib/omega/data   nfs    
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,noauto
> 
> Output of 'time mount /var/lib/omega/data'
> 
> real    1m45.887s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.022s
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?   I don't see anything funny in any log. 
> 
> Jim.
> 
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