Alan, We set actimeo=3 and this has significantly improved our problem. I saw this value in an HP thread and seemed reasonable. Thanks for the heads up. _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Alan Sparks Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:58 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] files not showing up in an nfs mounted filesysetm in timely manner Blackburn, Marvin wrote: > > We have and nfs mount from a windows pc nfs server. A file is created > on the server, but can take as long as 50 seconds to become available > on the client. > > We are running Centos 5.2 (final), using NFS version 3. Is there > anything we can do from the client side to see the file more quickly. > The files are very small, usually about 1k > Look at the "nfs" man page and consider mount options such as acdirmin, acdirmax (or actimeo), possibly even noac in specific circumstances. -Alan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos