Why is an NFS open call so much slower than it is on a local filesystem on RHEL (any version)?

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Issue

  • An open call on local disk takes on average 0.0000138934 seconds to complete. Over NFS the same call takes about 0.0012688838 seconds for an increase of 9,033 percent.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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