Poor NFS performance from an application using flock(2) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 when compared to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Issue
- flock(2) over NFS is slower on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 when compared to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5).
- NFS file share mounted by NFS client.
- Application using flock(2) system call.
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