[Gllug] Slow NFS

[Peter Childs]

Rich Walker wrote:

>So, the hard drive in one of our Mini-ITX machines started dying -
>probably because we were pulling too much power from the 12V line. I
>copied the data to the server, configured netboot, set up tftp, pxe and
>so on, and I was happy.
>
>Until two hours ago when the Mini-ITX box stopped booting. It gets to
>"INIT: version 2.86 booting" and pauses.
>
>Eventually, I left it on for ages, and it is creeping through the rcS.d
>boot files. I've seen this sort of thing before when NFS is playing
>silly buggers, so it might be that. Anyone got any good ideas for
>testing?
>
>(It's not my Mini-ITX week - the CPU fan on my normal desktop one died
>about the same time...)
>
>cheers, Rich.
>
>  
>

    Hmm which version of NFS are you using I know Debian has two 
different ones. One I think is Kernal based and one is User Space based 
I think. I use the kernal based one, because I found the user space one 
to be less reliable.
    Its just an idea.

Peter Childs
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