[Gllug] FTP downloaded SUSE 9.3 to hdd - won't install over nfs..

[Russell Howe]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:47:41PM +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
> nfs over the net is impossibly slow. Just out of curiosity I tried it to 
> a fast mirror, and after waiting for over 10 minutes simply to load the 
> ramdisk hit the reset button on da box. Life is too short!

You might find that NFS over TCP performs almost acceptably. When NFS
runs over UDP (as is traditionally the case), it is very susceptible to
network congestion.

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