Re: super slow client startup [partial solution]

Thanks for the quick response, it worked like a champ.

Matt

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:31:09 -0400 (EDT), David Mazieres
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:17:27 -0500
> > From: Matthew Gordon <[email protected]>
> >
> > I've been using the cvs version of sfs (0.8pre) with a decent amount
> > of success for a month or two now, but had seriously problems with the
> > amount of time it would take for the client to start. The time would
> > range from 20-50 minutes before the client initialized.
> 
> You probably just need to run the portmap daemon, and whatever scripts
> you have to start the NFS server just happen to be running portmapper.
> 
> Basically, in some versions of linux, when you make an NFS mount
> system call, the kernel wants to talk to the portmapper on the NFS
> server.  I'm not exactly sure why.  It may be in order to see if the
> server is running the NFS locking protocol software.  It doesn't use
> the portmapper to figure out what port the NFS server is using (since
> that is supplied as part of the mount arguments).
> 
> David
>