Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 19:16 pm, fsanta wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2003 19:45, Dylan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 September 2003 18:13 pm, fsanta wrote:
> > > When a user logs on they request a mount from the server. Where is that
> > > mount? Is it physically copied to the client or are bits of it it NFS'd
> > > from the server each time he does something with it or is there a link
> > > to it on his machine. . .? We've been getting some very slow progress
> > > just recently, with open office under kde and especially as the file
> > > count grows on the server.
> >
> > The files are 'NFS'd' to the client as demanded - effectively. NFS can
> > get very slow if the directories have very high file counts (at least,
> > I've notices the same effect on directories will 1000+ files.) It may
> > also depend on the filesystem you are exporting. You could try using the
> > async export option (see man exports)
>
> Yeah. That's what I thought. Each user has over 1000+ files before they
> have done any work under kde. All these have to be pulled in from the
> server I expect. 

Well, only the directory info for each unless a file is opened.

>Will try the async tomorrow. BTW we moved from ext3 to
> reiser over the summer. I wish I'd never done that.

In my experience that is a Bad Move when it comes to NFS

Dylan

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