Ubuntu Maverck upgrade
I upgraded my office desktop from Ubuntu Lucid to Maverick (10.10).
The experience was not very good. After the upgrade I got a very unresponsive desktop, which took around 2 minutes to load after log in. Firefox would not launch and overall the system was very slow.
This desktop has /home mounted (it’s an NFS from another system). So after some time trying to understand the cause of the problem, I decided to remove the nfs entries from /etc/fstab. Sure enough, the next login was much faster and the system was again fast and responsive.
I changed the fstab entry to a slightly different format. Here are the old and new versions:
#122.2.2.2.2:/home/usr /home nfs rw,sync 0 0
122.2.2.2.2:/home/usr /home nfs rw,noatime,nolock,vers=3 0 0
Thanks to Casey, at http://askubuntu.com/q/7695
