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