Hello, I am having one nfs server (kernel server)
and a client mounting the nfs IPserver:/home to /home as defaults.

It is very slow. How can I check what's happening ?
How can I tune it to be faster and secured for the data ?

thank for your help, since it s making people a bit more difficult thigns.
Couldn't it be as simple and as fast as samba ??

http://www.linux4you.be/netwerken.php?id=4

I followed this:
apt-get install
debconf
libc6
libwrap0
nfs-common
sysvinit
nfs-kernel-server
(that was all right installed for both my machines)
I was right

please find in red the difference



server:
==
in /etc/exports
/home 192.168.1.*(rw,no_root_squash)


/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart


/etc/hosts.allow:
esound: 127.0.0.1
##esound: 127.0.0.1
ALL: 192.168.1.
portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0


/etc/hosts.deny:
# You may wish to enable this to ensure any programs that don't
# validate looked up hostnames still leave understandable logs. In past
# versions of Debian this has been the default.
# ALL: PARANOI




CLIENT:
======
192.168.1.1:/home/share /nfsshare nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0




It looks to be wokring better.


Can someone explain me ??

I noted that the problems are coming when I do SAVE AS with iceape and firefox.
I have 30 folders and it is 1 min to load it ... waiting and surprisinly thunar or rox can still open apps... while firefox save as hangs madly ...

Samba is it better than linux free slow nfs ?

Thank you

Try 192.168.1.0/24 instead of 192.168.1.*. As mentioned in the exports manual (man exports), wildcards are not supported but it may happen that they work (when IP resolution fails or something like that). Don't forget to restart your nfs-kernel-server service after that.

I works a bit better. It is now possible to get X session on the client.
but it is still very very slow. Is there any way to make it moves a little bit faster.
I noted that samba runs pretty fast.
Is there any way to know what's happening ?

thanks a lot !

Sorry it appears not that bad, but still a bit slow. It is anyhow good enough to watch a movie. Totem lags like ** and mplayer : no lags and better sound. I am wondering. (Let's watch a movie ! )

0/24 looks far better than *