RHEL AS-2.1 U3 extremely slow - nfs issue?

[Jayaraman, Siva]

that was it!
I moved to a e.38 boot image and it worked perfectly as it should.

Thanks!
Siva Jayaraman
siva.jayaraman at glenayre.com
770.283.2559


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Joshua Jensen
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:14 PM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: RHEL AS-2.1 U3 extremely slow - nfs issue?
> 
> 
> Could it be this?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112766
> 
> Joshua
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:43:17AM -0500, Jayaraman, Siva wrote:
> > 
> > hello all,
> > 
> > We are in the process of moving to more recent 
> distributions of RH viz RHEL
> > AS-2.1 Update3 & RH AS-3.0.
> > 
> > We have kickstart infrastructure in place deploying RH7.2 
> and RH AS-2.1
> > distributions.
> > The kickstarts are done over NFS.
> > 
> > The new distributions were added to the NFS server (which 
> is the same as the
> > DHCP server).
> > But the new kickstarts (AS-2.1-U3 & AS-3.0) take an 
> extremely long time now.
> > 
> > The older kickstarts install around 800M of pkgs in about 3 
> minutes, whereas
> > now the newer kickstarts take around 50 minutes to install 
> 650M of packages.
> > 
> > I checked the network connection and it is always 100Mbps 
> Full Duplex for
> > both cases.
> > The only difference I notice is that I get this message on 
> one of the
> > virtual consoles - 
> > 	"nfs: mount version older than kernel"
> > 
> > The older kickstarts mount the nfs directory as nfs v2 
> whereas the newer
> > kickstarts mount the directory as v3.
> > Could this be the source of my problem?
> > 
> > The NFS server is a RH7.2 box capable of doing both v2 & v3.
> > 
> > If anyone has suggestions on how to debug/correct this 
> problem, I would
> > highly appreciate it.
> > 
> > thanks!
> > Siva Jayaraman
> > 
> > 
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