Re: NFS client performance slow with ls

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

owen@illinois.edu wrote:
>  I've come across a problem with either Debian or recent Linux
> kernels with NFS that I am really confused by.  I have an NFS server
> (Debian Squeeze) exporting to a large number of users.  While setting
> up a new computer (Squeeze) as an NFS client, I noticed that it was
> taking ~10 seconds to run 'ls -l' on a directory with ~900 entries.
> This seemed a bit slow.  I ran 'ls' a few times with 'time':

Do you have enough rpcd threads (kernel processes) running?
- grep RPCNFSDCOUNT /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server
- ps -ef | grep '\[nfsd\]' | wc -l

Chris