RHEL AS-2.1 U3 extremely slow - nfs issue?

[Joshua Jensen]

Yup... as that bug that I opened said, NFS over UDP (which is what
anaconda uses for installs) was _badly_ broken.

Where did you find the e.38 boot images?


On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:32:14AM -0500, Jayaraman, Siva wrote:
> 
> 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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