I am using RedHat for 5 months as an experiment to check whether we can switch over from unix workstations to i386 machines. I am using the modelsim CAD program from modeltech on RedHat6.0 (i386). When running the program on data at a central (SUN) file server in stead of on the local PC disk, the program slows down with a factor of 6. So for performance reasons, I am forced to switch to local program and data storage (which, for obvious reasons, I do want). I do not know what the cause of the problem is. However, I hear rumors that linux nfs interfacing is slow. Is this true ? or is it some configuration problem ?