Chuck> The curent line from the fstab is as follows: Chuck> hostname:/home /home nfs Chuck> rsize=4096,wsize=4096,bg,intr,rw,actimeo=15 0 0 Here's one of the problems, you're not specifying TCP here, and you're using pretty low numbers. Try changing to use 32768 and tcp for your numbers. Also, have you checked the duplex on server to make sure it's ok? You mention you're using RAID on the server, I assume RAID5? If so, what kind of stripe size are you using? What does 'vmstat 1' (on the server) say from about 15 seconds before the copy kicks in, to about 15 seconds after the copy is done? Does the time scale up linearly when you copy a 100mb file? Or drop by half when you copy a 25mb file? What filesystem are you using on the NFS server and do you have quotas or anything else like that setup? How full is the filesystem? What happens if you write a pair of 50 mb files at the same time from two different clients? Does the time double? Does the load double? Basically, I don't know what's going on here, but I suspect: 1. network speed/duplex mismatch - that you're seeing lots of timeouts and retries on writes, but not reads. 2. NFS needs tuning on the clients to write in bigger chunks 3. You're RAID stinks. Which reminds me, how much time does a write from a non-raid disk on the server to the home directory/raid disk take? Can you time the write time of a 50mb file and if it's still ugly, then you've narrowed down the issue. Basically, there's alot of potential problems here and we need more details. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548