On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:40 +0100, Anna Langley wrote: > [1] slow NFS locking, dmesg reports "lockd: failed to monitor xxxxx" Which tells you that rpc.statd either isn't running, or isn't able to receive RPC calls. Note that rpc.statd has to run on both the client and the server. > [2] Applications which set locks in NFS mounted home directories start > very slowly. > > dmesg shows the following, repeated over and over: > > lockd: cannot monitor cabinet > lockd: failed to monitor cabinet See above. You need to fix your rpc.statd. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html