==> Regarding [Wlug] NFS Trouble; Chuck Haines <chaines@gmail.com> adds: chaines> I have an interesting problem that is occuring. I have a /home chaines> directory on a file server and I have several login servers that chaines> mount this /home directory via NFS. Now this /home directory has chaines> a ton of files and directorys (about 2000 user accounts). I chaines> noticed that when I perform a copy of a large file ( I tested with chaines> a 50 MB file) on a login server from something like /tmp to the chaines> NFS mounted /home, the load average on the file server jumps up to chaines> over 7, and seems to take forever (around 3-4 minutes). If I copy chaines> a large file (once again I tested with 50 MB) from the NFS mounted chaines> /home to like /tmp on the login server, there is no noticable load chaines> average increase and it occurs in approximately 10-15 seconds. So chaines> it seems that writes to the NFS mounted /home are taking longer chaines> than they should and are spiking the load average. Both the file chaines> server and the login servers are dual P3's with 2 gigs of ram. chaines> Has anyone ever seen anything like this, or knows of any solutions chaines> to this problem? Kernel version (client and server)? Version of nfs-utils? What does top show as taking up CPU when you do the copy and your load average spikes? -Jeff