On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Giorgio Pioda] > > Probably my i3 test machine is not the perfect setup to have an > > idea about performance, but... > > > > I see that Ubuntu as workstation client is WAY faster than DebianEdu > > workstation. Probably tis is more related to Gnome2 vs KDE4, but in any case > > my Ubuntu setup is running without NFS3 daemon. > > Well, unless you can document that the Debian Edu workstation get > significantly faster by disabling rpc.statd, I believe it is best to > leave this change to Wheezy. Ubuntu/Gnome is faster than Debian Edu/KDE > is not really telling much about how rpc.statd affect performance. > > If you believe rpc.statd is started by mistake by the package when only > NFSv4 is used, is it not better to report a bug to BTS and ask for the > Debian package to be changed? Digging further into it ... AFAIK rpc.statd isn't needed and doesn't run on tjener even if LTSP is used. For testing, I've set NEED_STATD=no and LTSP seems to work quite well. Maybe that's due to the fact that nfsv4 supports nfsv3 mounts. (logged in as root / LTSP terminal): modinfo nfs filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko license: GPL author: Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de> depends: sunrpc,fscache,lockd,auth_rpcgss,nfs_acl vermagic: 2.6.32-5-486 mod_unload modversions 486 parm: callback_tcpport:portnr parm: cache_getent:Path to the client cache upcall program (string) parm: cache_getent_timeout:Timeout (in seconds) after which the cache upcall is assumed to have failed (ulong) parm: enable_ino64:bool Wolfgang
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