On Friday 17 December 2004 11:38 am, James Oakley wrote:
The 'sync' option *really* slows NFS down. It's a must if you're mounting homedirs and users are keeping files open in applications.
I have diskless workstations that boot ltsp and access an application that plays movies. With SuSE 8.2 & 9.0, the loading of the application was relativelely quick. With 9.1 and 9.2 it takes a VERY noticeable amount of time to load the application. Once everything is loaded, they both seem to run the same speed. Could this be why for me also? Could you elaborate a little more on the pro's and con's of sync vs. async. I am limited to about 13 - 14 workstations playing the same video file at the same time on the servers nfs share before bandwidth becomes an issue. I tried streaming the video instead using videolanclient, but the workstations didn't seem to be powerfull enough to decode both the steam and the video at the same time. B-)