From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Strange delays on NFS server
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:58:26 -0400
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To: Ian Thurlbeck <ian@stams.strath.ac.uk>
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Ian Thurlbeck wrote:

> I am getting strange delays on our NFS server. Everything will
> be fine for maybe 5 to 10 minutes, then saving a small text file
> from a client machine will suddenly take 15 seconds or more.
> Similarly, mozilla will pause accessing a page for ages ~30secs
> (I assume it's poking about in ~/.mozilla). Everything pops back to 
> normal afterwards. NFS server is lightly used at the moment.

Boy... it sure sounds to me like some type of daemon or something is 
starting up
that is bring the machine to its knees... . Would it be possible to have 
a top -i running
on the server when this pause occurs?

SteveD.


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