NFS as a protocol is not known for its speediness but this is absurd. I did an
NFS install of a box this morning (that would be the box which won't boot
from CD for those who were in IRC) and it was rather slow but I just left it
to it. Having got it up, I want to copy the DVD to a disk on it so I have it
handy for installing any further bits I might require. So I simply mounted
the NFS exported DVD on the new box and started copying.
After a couple of minutes I looked - it was transferring about 8MB a MINUTE.
So I killed that and used rsync instead which is ticking away now at about
100 MB/min - still not exactly turbo charged but a lot better than the NFS
rate. Any ideas as to what's making it SO slow ? There's really no point in
running more nfsd processes, as there is exactly one client, so I'm a little
at a loss I must say.
Niall
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A bizarre collection of stuffed animals could fetch up to £2m when it is
The Museum of Curiosities is home to a menagerie of 10,000 Victorian stuffed
The museum, next to the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, gets about 30,000
But now the inn's owner Kevin Moore has decided to sell.
Mr Moore said: "It was very fashionable to have taxidermy on your
mantlepiece in Victorian times, but it is not really in favour now."
Nevertheless, figures of up to £2m for the collection have been discussed.
The museum was opened in 1861 by taxidermist Walter Potter.
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