nfsd daemon

[Hill_1]

Dear all,
What is the difference of setting the nfsd=1 and nfsd=4 in the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf?
Thanks.

[James Beamish-White]

On my machines, its NUM_NFSD that I'm guessing you are referring to.

If you look at man nfsd, you'll get the following:

nservers nservers is the suggested number of file system request daemons that will start. The actual number of daemons started will be one tcp daemon (to support kernel tcp threads) plus the number of udp daemons. The minimum number of udp daemons will be equal to a multiple of the active processors, or to nservers, whichever is greater. To obtain the best performance in most cases, set nservers to at least eight.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
James

[melvyn burnard]

read the comments in the file, it explains this. I would also recommend visiting :
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html#NFS%20Services
and reading through this.
You could also investigate attending one or more of the Network Administration Courses
that are available.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,
nfsd starts the NFS server daemons that handle client file system requests. nservers(nfsd)is the number of file system request daemons that start. This number should be determined by the load expected on the server system. To obtain the best performance in most
cases, set nservers to four. If you set the nservers(nfsd) to 1 the performance will be poor

[Joseph Chakkery]

Hi,

This number suggests how many NFS background daemons should be running. This daemons can be incresed depending on the no of client request.

If set to 1, Only one daemon will be running so performance will be less if their is more request.

Regards
Joe.