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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Larry Vaden <vaden@texoma.net>
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Subject: Re: best current practice re: number of NFS servers
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:16:57PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
> root      69  0.0  0.0   364  196  ??  Is    1:52PM   0:00.00 nfsd: master 
> root      71  0.0  0.0   356  188  ??  S     1:52PM   0:00.22 nfsd: server
> root      72  0.0  0.0   356  188  ??  I     1:52PM   0:00.00 nfsd: server
> root      73  0.0  0.0   356  188  ??  I     1:52PM   0:00.00 nfsd: server
> root      74  0.0  0.0   356  188  ??  I     1:52PM   0:00.00 nfsd: server

It looks like only the second nfsd has done any work (note the
0:00.22 time), so I don't think you need any more nfsds at the
moment. Keep an eye on their CPU usage and see how many of them are
actually getting used - that should give you a reasonable idea of
how many to run.

I've included the equivelent output from a busy NFS server we have
(up for 80 days). We could possibly do with 1 more nfsd on this
machine, but we're not seeing any performance problems.

	David.

root       199  0.3  0.0   356   56  ??  S    25Jan02 3142:36.14 nfsd: server
root       200  0.0  0.0   356   56  ??  S    25Jan02 373:45.14 nfsd: server
root       201  0.0  0.0   356   56  ??  S    25Jan02  38:55.37 nfsd: server
root       202  0.0  0.0   356   56  ??  I    25Jan02   7:48.41 nfsd: server

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