"Stephen Biggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>> Behalf Of Jim Carter
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:07 PM
>> To: Stephen Biggs
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [autofs] Direct mount newbie question
...
> The only time this becomes a problem is when it tries to open
> /home/.junk.  This triggers the automounter to go across the net to find
> the directory in the map.  I may be wrong about any NFS chatter. In any
> case, this access of the map across the network can take up to 300 ms to
> query and then return a failure.
>
> It has nothing to do with which user is running. The problem is that "Q"
> is stupidly written and does this futile search many, MANY times in the
> running of a job, not taking no for an answer. Again, as I said before,
> I have no control over this application and cannot fix its ridiculous
> behavior.

Ian, this should be fixed by the negative lookup caching, right?  I take
it that's not in 5.0.3.

Cheers,

Jeff

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