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

[Harry Putnam]

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)