nfs slow behaviour

[John Thompson]

Bob Marcan wrote:

> John Thompson wrote:
>
>> No solution, but I see a similar problem here using FC1.  My /home 
>> directories are nfs-mounted from a FreeBSD (5.2.1) machine and as you 
>> say it can take from 5 to 30 minutes for the mount to succeed -- when 
>> it is done from /etc/fstab:
>>
>> amayatra:/home                 /home                   nfs rw 0 0
>>
>> I've actually commented out this line in /etc/fstab because it takes 
>> so damn long to mount. No errors are displayed.  The nfs server shows 
>> the mount request being received, but it takes fer-frickin'-ever to 
>> complete on the client.  None of the other machines on the network 
>> (running FreeBSD and NetBSD) have this problem.
>>
>> Curiously, if I leave the line commented out and mount /home manually 
>> ("mount amayatra:/home /home") it is instantly mounted; no delay.
>>
>> I've tried changing when the nfs filesystems are mounted in init, but 
>> it doesn't seem to matter.
>>
>> It's kind of a PITA because I have to mount /home manually when I 
>> reboot, but I don't reboot all that often so I've just put up with it.

> We have similar problem at one of the our customers. RH9, tg3 driver.
> It takes too long to autonegotiate with the switch.
> After that, everything works fine.
> tg3 doesn't have any options, ethtool can only set 100Mb, mii-tool crashes.

What is this "tg3 driver"?

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)