Initial NFS access very slow

[Frank-Michael Fischer]

Frank Cox wrote:
> I have had this problem across several versions of Fedora, and maybe back into
> Red Hat Linux 7,8,9 days.  I can't exactly remember, but it's been a long time.
>
> When I first try to use a NFS share after not using it for a little while, it
> takes several seconds up to about a minute before I get a response.  After the
> initial command has been executed, things seem to work well.
>
> Any idea what could be holding things up?  I used to think that it was the other
> machine going to sleep somehow, but I can ssh into it instantly anytime, so I
> doubt that's the problem.
>
>   

Whenever I had such or similar problems the portmap service did not run
on the client machine. Maybe you could have a look at this little beast?

FMF