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On Wednesday 19 May 2004 23:55, Eric Anderson wrote:
> I have several heavily used NFS servers, currently running FreeBSD
> 4.9-RELEASE.  I'm getting jammed up with all my nfsd processes being
> busy, so clients see slow connections to the server.  I have the nfsd
> starting with a count of 20, which is the max set in the nfsd.c file.
>
> Are there any risks I should be aware of before bumping up the max to
> say 40, or even 50?
>
> What would it take to make this a sysctl adjustable value?
>
> Should the max be bumped higher by default nowdays?
>
> Thanks - any help/hints is appreciated.
>
> Eric

About a year ago i observed strong nfs performance decrease when using =20
RLT8139A nics. Nfs transfers leaded into high system load, because of an=20
excessive high packet retransmission rate. Switching over to 3Com nics solv=
ed=20
my problem.  =20

regards=20
ch

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