First,  I am running RH 9 on my workstation and have a RH 7.1 box
running as a webserver.  I mount /home via nfs from the RH 7 box to my
workstation.  I have noticed that write speeds to /home are very slow,
with no obvious reason.  If I copy a file from /tmp (local) to
/home/raymond (remote) it takes forever, and there is next to no network
usage or cpu load.  Transfers in the opersite direction saturate the
10MBit connection.  