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