Nfsd consuming CPU

[Suren Selva]

Hello All,

We have an NFS server and client both running Unix 10.20. A directory ( vesus a filesystem ) is exported from the server.

when I transfer several small files, I find the nfsd process in the server is using upto 80% of the CPU resources and everything else slows down.

However when I export a filesystem (vs a directory ) and mount it on the client we are not experiencing any problems with nfsd.

Does anyone know what the cause of this problem is? Thanks in advance to all suggestions.

Regards,
Suren Selva
815-929-7211

[U.SivaKumar_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,
It means that number of nfsd daemons is not sufficient in your system. To check how many nfsd daemons are running,
#ps -ef | grep nfsd | grep -v grep

Increase the number of nfsd daemons by command.
#nfsd 20

For permanent configuration edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file


regards,
U.SivaKumar