From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265521AbUHWREa (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:04:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265978AbUHWREa (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:04:30 -0400 Received: from mail.imr-net.com ([65.182.241.242]:8105 "EHLO commie.imr-net.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265521AbUHWRE0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:04:26 -0400 Message-ID: <412A2398.8050702@asylumwear.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:04:24 -0700 From: Joshua Schmidlkofer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040806) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas Cc: ck kernel mailing list , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-ck4 References: <412880BF.6050503@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <412880BF.6050503@kolivas.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I don't know what or why, but I am experiancing a nightmare with interactivity and heavy nfs use. I am using Gentoo, and I have my portage tree exported from a central server. Trying to do an emerge update world is taking forever. During the time it is scanning the portage tree it takes 2 - 3 minutes to load Firefox. It also took almost 5 minuts to load GAIM. Once GAIM loaded, none of the screens would paint. I halted the emerge and instantly Gaim painted and all the web pages I was waiting for in firefox finished. So I unleashed emerge again, and tried to load more local-only apps. Same problem. Horrible delays. Halt emerge, and boom, everything snappy and fast. So, as long as I don't use NFS, this is spectacular, but NFS access is murdering me. In any case, I would take from recommendations. For testing, etc. I am on the list, but if there is testing, please CC my address. CPU: Pentium 4 - 1.7Ghz. memory - [swap usage is already much improved]: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 775200 499796 275404 0 5200 126816 -/+ buffers/cache: 367780 407420 Swap: 799992 0 799992 Root: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 39G 26G 13G 67% /