UNIX process question

[Jim Tropiano_1]

Have a question about what is nfsd and should there be a lot of those commands on the system?

We have a script that looks at IDLE CPU under 60% that we wrote. Here is the out put . I am just curious.
CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
3 pts/tt 3087 oracle 235 20 39156K 24036K run 14:22 97.62 97.45 sqlplus
1 ? 3042 oracle 235 20 1804M 67832K run 4:23 63.98 63.87 oraclemcd1
2 ? 3089 oracle 154 20 1747M 10488K sleep 5:42 35.57 35.51 oraclemcd2
1 ? 3105 oracle 154 20 1741M 4280K sleep 1:17 8.98 8.96 oraclemcd1
1 ? 10109 oracle 156 20 1742M 5748K sleep 4:47 3.71 3.71 ora_dbw0_mcd2
0 ? 10111 oracle 156 20 1746M 9844K sleep 2:40 2.05 2.04 ora_lgwr_mcd2
1 ? 1896 root -16 20 38592K 16748K run 17:28 1.22 1.21 midaemon
0 ? 39 root 152 20 7424K 7424K run 11:06 0.77 0.77 vxfsd
1 ? 7168 a2dev01a 152 20 2703M 1343M run 15:19 0.66 0.66 java
1 ? 2202 root 154 20 3012K 436K sleep 2:22 0.50 0.49 nfsd
1 ? 2207 root 154 20 3012K 436K sleep 2:22 0.49 0.49 nfsd
1 ? 2204 root 154 20 3012K 436K sleep 2:21 0.49 0.49 nfsd
0 ? 2203 root 154 20 3012K 436K sleep 2:39 0.48 0.48 nfsd
1 ? 2200 root 154 20 3012K 436K sleep 2:22 0.48 0.48 nfsd
0 ? 2205 root 154 20 3012K 436K sleep 2:40 0.47 0.47 nfsd
3 ? 2215 root 154 20 3012K 436K sleep 2:14 0.47 0.47 nfsd

[Kent Ostby · Accepted solution]

The nfsd is the NFS daemons that run on an NFS server.

By default, 16 of them start up.

You can find information on how to limit them in the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file.

Best regards,

Oz

[Steven E. Protter]

nfsd commonly spawns 16 daemons in a default configuration. They will just sit and sleep until there is need for them.

Nothing to worry about.

SEP

[Bill Hassell]

If you do not use NFS, you can turn off all the extra daemons (both nfsd and biod if you have both seerver and client enabled). SAM will do this easily, or you can stop the 3 components, then edit the nfsconf file to turn off all NFS. To stop the processes:

/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core stop

And edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf to set client and server =0, turn off automount options and also turn off START_MOUNTD.

[Jim Tropiano_1]

Thanks everyone for all the information