Second ls -l on NFS share takes a lot more time than first

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Issue

  • Second 'ls -l' on NFS share taking more time than first.
# time ls -la /test/dir1/ | wc -l
521152

real    0m33.851s
user    0m6.206s
sys 0m11.317s

# time ls -la /test/dir1/ | wc -l
521152

real    3m0.837s
user    0m9.403s
sys 0m41.749s

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • NFSv4

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