[GRASS-user] v.in.ascii slowness in GRASS 6.4.0

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Martin & Hamish,
>
> I believe I know what the problem is (to a degree). I am running GRASS in a
> network environment where GRASS is installed on one machine, my user files
> are on a 2nd, my GRASS database is on a 3rd, and I am logged into a 4th (all
> on Redhat Linux). So, reading my file over the -network- must be causing the
> big slowdown. One week ago we installed a new version of RedHat Linux on all
> of our networked machines (of which there are a combination of 10
> workstations and ~10 servers); something with this new installation did
> something to slowdown what I was doing previously.

<OT>
I guess that you use NFS. There are a few options to tune NFS, perhaps
during update your optimized settings got lost?

Some random links:
    * http://www.linuxconfig.org/HowTo_configure_NFS
    * http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=64
    * http://atmail.com/kb/category/multiserver/
</OT>

cheers
Markus