[SunHELP] Solaris 8 slow automount

[Steve Pribyl]

Make sure that DNS/NIS can resolve all hostnames and ip's in the set up.
About 30 seconds is about as long as the 40 sec DNS timeout.

Steve Pribyl

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Richard Skelton wrote:

> Hi,
> I have installed Solaris 8 on my Ultra 30 300 MHz 640 MB system which
> uses NIS from an E3500 (Solaris 2.5.1 8x400MHz 8 GB) and files from a
> netapp cluster (2x740).
> It takes over 30 second to remotely login to the Ultra 30.
> My login causes about 10 automounts for my applications in my path.
> Once on the machine it is nice and quick until the automounts times out.
> The only automount maps we have ar auto.master and auto.direct which has
> 227 entries.
> All mount are from the netapp cluster.
> Is this slowness normal?
> Can I speed things up?
> --
> Cheers
> Richard.
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