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Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

 
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Sagar Sirdesai
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Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

Hi
nfskd and nfsktcpd

Please suggest why these 2 daemons are need in hp-ux
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Michal Kapalka (mikap)
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Re: Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

hi,

its a core subsystem from NFS.

NFS Kernel thread daemon - nfskd

mikap
Michal Kapalka (mikap)
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Sajjad Sahir
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Re: Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

Dear Sagar

These are nfs daemons and are controlled by

/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file.


thanks and regards

Sajjad Sahir
Sagar Sirdesai
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Re: Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

Thanks for the replies.

Please let me know what is the need of these daemons.

Sagar
Michal Kapalka (mikap)
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Sagar Sirdesai
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Re: Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

Thanks to Michal for the link

After reading the Document I have doubt

So nfsktcpd daemon is used for NFS over TCP .

Now by default all NFS request use TCP so does this mean the nfsd daemon is rarely used on in HP-11i

Michal Kapalka (mikap)
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Re: Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

Hi,

its depend on the used NFS version.

http://www.unixguide.net/hp/faq/5.7.15.shtml

mikap
Dave Olker
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Re: Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

Hi Sagar,

> So nfsktcpd daemon is used for NFS over
> TCP .
>
> Now by default all NFS request use TCP so
> does this mean the nfsd daemon is rarely
> used on in HP-11i

If you're running HP-UX 11i v1 or v2 and you're only using NFS/TCP then the nfsktcpd threads will be doing all the work and the nfsd daemons will do no real work.

You can confirm this with nfsstat. That command shows a breakdown of how many requests arrived on connection-oriented transports (TCP) vs. connectionless transports (UDP). If you don't see any UDP requests then your nfsd daemons should be idle.

The nfskd daemon, as you probably already read, was a placeholder for implementing a threaded model for NFS/UDP that we never completed so it does nothing.

If you're running 11i v3 there is only a single nfsd daemon process running and all the UDP and TCP requests are serviced by threads owned by this process.

Regards,

Dave
I work for HPE

[Any personal opinions expressed are mine, and not official statements on behalf of Hewlett Packard Enterprise]
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Sagar Sirdesai
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Re: Need of the daemosn nfskd abd nfsktcpd

Hi Dave

Thanks for the information
So if I am using 11.11 and 11.23 then nfsktcpd daemon handles the NFS requests.
So there is need for only nfsd daemon which handles the TCP connections.

So Can I stopped the nfsd from running as this will reduce cpu utilisation.