Re: nfsroot dead slow with redhat 7.2

[Dax Kelson]

On 20 Dec 2001, David Chow wrote:

> Dear Trond,
> 
> Thanks for answering my question, we have use the i386 kernel at the
> server that works fine. Also even we uses the i686 kerenl at the server,
> it happens normally when doing NFS mounts, it will only be dead slow
> when
> 	server i686 2.4.7-10 kernel && client nfsroot(2.4.13 i686)
> 
> The network is fine. It is so slow that an ls -l at the rootfs takes
> more than 2 minutes. The readdir() seems alright because the ls
> immediate counts the number of records says "total blahbalh" but when

Is a "ls -ln" any faster?

Dax