[K12OSN] slow NFS

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 4/8/08, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having an nfs problem at least...  On a desktop machine that's
>  authenticating to the k12ltsp/smbldap server it takes for ever to log
>  in.  Getent passwd takes 14 seconds to return the smbldap users.  Top
>  command takes at least 10 seconds to start.
>
>  Here's good example of the difference in speed with local vs. nfs
>  mouted directories:
>
>  [localuser at smart1ltsp ~]$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=16k count=16384

don't forget to put a sync at the end. Or you will also be including
the time for the buffers to decide to flush.

time `dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=16k count=16384 && sync`


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