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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