slow data transfer over nfs ... is it fedora?

[Harry Putnam]

nosp <nosp at xades.com> writes:

> Sorry if this has been suggested already, but with nfs using UDP rather
> than TCP have you considered checking for a bad network cable?  I and
> others have had this exact symptom that was caused by a bad network
> cable.  You don't notice the problem with TCP shell connections because
> TCP is concealing the failures that UDP can't deal with.

Well, that was worth a try and easily done so changed both cables one
at time and found no appreciable difference in trans rate.  Still
slower than the second coming.