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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:43:38 -0700 (MST)
From: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
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To: David Chow <davidchow@rcn.com.hk>
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Subject: Re: nfsroot dead slow with redhat 7.2
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On 20 Dec 2001, David Chow wrote:

> Just find out... it is a problem of some settings in /etc directory 
> it is not related to the FSes . I replaced the /etc directory with the
> one we are using on the production machines... by the way. What can be
> wrong? When it starts init , and execute the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit , it
> is hell slow. We have tried replace /sbin/init with bash and we got out
> a shell but "ls -l" takes more than 2 minutes... do you know what sort
> of settings in the /etc will affect use space "bash" or "glibc" on
> nfsroot behaves different ? This is so strange.

David.  I asked yesterday for you to try "ls -ln" and report if it is any
faster.  What you are just now discovering, I suspected when I first read 
your report.

Please try "ls -ln" and report.

Dax

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