From: Bryan O'Sullivan Subject: Re: Re: Slow performance with 2.4.19pre1 Date: 04 Jul 2002 13:33:52 -0700 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1025814832.2122.14.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-HuyJSF8lL/ARWehqlCZ+" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from dsl092-013-071.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.13.71] helo=pelerin.serpentine.com) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17QDIY-0006WB-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 13:33:54 -0700 To: Jeremy Sanders In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: --=-HuyJSF8lL/ARWehqlCZ+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 08:25, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > Sorry - I know it's bad form to reply to one's own emails. It seems that > the stock 2.4.19rc1 kernel doesn't have the problem as a client, and so > it's the RedHat patched 2.4.18 kernel which is a very slow client. This > looks like a RedHat bug. Yes, you're correct. The kernels Red Hat has been shipping with 7.3 have atrocious NFS client behaviour, and will bring some servers (such as Netapp boxes) to a halt.