slow data transfer over nfs ... is it fedora?

[Samuel Flory]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> I lack much experience with nfs but I suspect I should be seeing much
> better transfer rates here.  Wondering if a few posters could post a
> timed transfer of know amount of data
> 
> This is from a rh9 to yarrow (fully updated)  I'll show exports file
> at the end:
> 
>    root # du -sh $rea/News/agent/nntp/enews*
>   169M    /home/reader/News/agent/nntp/enews.newsguy.com
> 
>    root # time cp -a  $rea/News/agent/nntp/enews*/ /EXP_root
>   real    12m26.120s
>   user    0m0.340s
>   sys     0m13.990s
> 
> So 169MB in 12 1/2 minutes.
> 
> cat /etc/exports:
>   /                        reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)
>   /home                    reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)
>   /var                     reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)
>   /mnt/exp                 reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)
>   /usr                     reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)
>   /tmp                     reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)
> 
> 


   What does /proc/mount say?  What does "mii-tool eth0" or "ethtool 
eth0" say?  Are you dropping packets? (ifconfig and ping )

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