Hi Jon, > Opening up a document from an NFS server in OpenOffice version 2.0 and > above takes a few minutes ... in fact if you have preview on, you can't > even click on documents.
Check out Brendan's procsystime from the DTraceToolkit, blogged here: <http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/dtracing_vim_latency> That should give you some idea of where the time is being spent. If it's spending lots of time performing file locking then you need to check where that time is being spent, snoop would help. -- Peter