help: df slow

[Cameron Simpson]

On 06Nov2008 08:43, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
| On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 20:48 +0800, adrian kok wrote:
| > I have more than 10 nfs mount folder in the machine
| > When I type df. it sometimes is slow and sometimes is
| > fine
| > Can I know what is the problem?
| 
| I think you answered your own question: it's slow because you have 10
| NFS mounts, thus 10 interactions with network-connected servers when you
| do a df.

Also, if one or more is down it can be VERY slow.
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