RE: RHEL AS-2.1 U3 extremely slow - nfs issue?

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https://rhn.redhat.com/network/errata/details/index.pxt?eid=2017
if that doesnt work, the advisory is:- "RHSA-2004:069"

the initrd image the the boot kernel comes with has barely any modules in
it.
also it is structured a little differently than normal.
i pretty much rebuilt the initrd image by hand...

Siva Jayaraman


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joshua Jensen
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:08 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: RHEL AS-2.1 U3 extremely slow - nfs issue?
> 
> 
> Yup... as that bug that I opened said, NFS over UDP (which is what
> anaconda uses for installs) was _badly_ broken.
> 
> Where did you find the e.38 boot images?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:32:14AM -0500, Jayaraman, Siva wrote:
> > 
> > that was it!
> > I moved to a e.38 boot image and it worked perfectly as it should.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Siva Jayaraman
> > siva.jayaraman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 770.283.2559
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of 
> Joshua Jensen
> > > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:14 PM
> > > To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> > > Subject: Re: RHEL AS-2.1 U3 extremely slow - nfs issue?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Could it be this?
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112766
> > > 
> > > Joshua
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:43:17AM -0500, Jayaraman, Siva wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > hello all,
> > > > 
> > > > We are in the process of moving to more recent 
> > > distributions of RH viz RHEL
> > > > AS-2.1 Update3 & RH AS-3.0.
> > > > 
> > > > We have kickstart infrastructure in place deploying RH7.2 
> > > and RH AS-2.1
> > > > distributions.
> > > > The kickstarts are done over NFS.
> > > > 
> > > > The new distributions were added to the NFS server (which 
> > > is the same as the
> > > > DHCP server).
> > > > But the new kickstarts (AS-2.1-U3 & AS-3.0) take an 
> > > extremely long time now.
> > > > 
> > > > The older kickstarts install around 800M of pkgs in about 3 
> > > minutes, whereas
> > > > now the newer kickstarts take around 50 minutes to install 
> > > 650M of packages.
> > > > 
> > > > I checked the network connection and it is always 100Mbps 
> > > Full Duplex for
> > > > both cases.
> > > > The only difference I notice is that I get this message on 
> > > one of the
> > > > virtual consoles - 
> > > > 	"nfs: mount version older than kernel"
> > > > 
> > > > The older kickstarts mount the nfs directory as nfs v2 
> > > whereas the newer
> > > > kickstarts mount the directory as v3.
> > > > Could this be the source of my problem?
> > > > 
> > > > The NFS server is a RH7.2 box capable of doing both v2 & v3.
> > > > 
> > > > If anyone has suggestions on how to debug/correct this 
> > > problem, I would
> > > > highly appreciate it.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks!
> > > > Siva Jayaraman
> > > > 
> > > > 
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