NFS slow mounting

I have a boot cd to a stripped down, bare linux kernel and load
drivers as needed, etc. Generally, I have network drivers and maybe
scsi and/or usb drivers loaded. Not much else.
While implementing nfs support, I can mount an nfs volume but it takes
about 5 1/2 minutes to mount. I am not loading any other daemons on
the linux client. The mount does work, it is just slow.
I found when booting knoppix that if portmap is not loaded, it takes a
long time. With portmap running, it makes no difference on my client.
I have found that if I use the "-o nolock" option, the mount works
fast.

Currently using 2.4.22 kernel.

Any ideas?

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:51:05 -0700, Kenn White wrote:

> I have a boot cd to a stripped down, bare linux kernel and load drivers as
> needed, etc. Generally, I have network drivers and maybe scsi and/or usb
> drivers loaded. Not much else. While implementing nfs support, I can mount
> an nfs volume but it takes about 5 1/2 minutes to mount. I am not loading
> any other daemons on the linux client. The mount does work, it is just
> slow. I found when booting knoppix that if portmap is not loaded, it takes
> a long time. With portmap running, it makes no difference on my client. I
> have found that if I use the "-o nolock" option, the mount works fast.
>
> Currently using 2.4.22 kernel.
>
> Any ideas?

You'll also need statd and possibly lockd, although probably not the
latter.

Regards, Ian

Kenn White <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> While implementing nfs support, I can mount an nfs volume but it takes
> about 5 1/2 minutes to mount. I am not loading any other daemons on
> the linux client. The mount does work, it is just slow.
> I found when booting knoppix that if portmap is not loaded, it takes a
> long time. With portmap running, it makes no difference on my client.

Remember, portmap _must_ be started before all the other NFS related
services.

Do you have access to the lockd service in hosts.allow? What if you open
hosts.allow right up temporarily?

Do you have a correct reverse DNS record?

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Ian Northeast <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:51:05 -0700, Kenn White wrote:
>
> > I have a boot cd to a stripped down, bare linux kernel and load drivers as
> > needed, etc. Generally, I have network drivers and maybe scsi and/or usb
> > drivers loaded. Not much else. While implementing nfs support, I can mount
> > an nfs volume but it takes about 5 1/2 minutes to mount. I am not loading
> > any other daemons on the linux client. The mount does work, it is just
> > slow. I found when booting knoppix that if portmap is not loaded, it takes
> > a long time. With portmap running, it makes no difference on my client. I
> > have found that if I use the "-o nolock" option, the mount works fast.
> >
> > Currently using 2.4.22 kernel.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> You'll also need statd and possibly lockd, although probably not the
> latter.
>
> Regards, Ian

statd did not fix the problem. Still no solution.