hi all,
i had a problem recently with mounting an nfs share being very slow,
sometimes taking up to ten minutes. at the time i also had other problems
with kernel compiles and openmosix stability. and finally, win4lin (licensed
version) and vmware (demo version) stopped working. i couldn't get
vmware-config.pl to build good vmware modules, so even windows
solution #2 (uninstall vmware, reinstall it) wouldn't work. even booting
from a formerly good win4lin kernel wouldn't let win4lin start.
well, i gave up and went to windows solution #3. reinstalled the whole
OS :). and now, with a pristine mandrake 9.1 install on the client (didn't
reinstall mandrake on the server), nfs mounts are fast.
it wasn't a reverse DNS issue either (i've seen reverse DNS cause
slowness in sendmail and other things, so i thought that might be it
ith nfs). stopping named on the server and having its DNS be an
external DNS server that definitely doesn't know about my private
IP subnet doesn't make nfs mount slowly now.
ah well. i guess i corrupted something (libraries, configurations)
somehow and a clean install wiped that corruption out.
so, how long do you guys keep trying before going to windows solution #2?
in the past i've gone *weeks* trying to debug something before giving
in. but that was when i didn't have so much work :).
tiger
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