Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:58:23 +0200 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Subject: Re: Max NFSD processes Message-ID: <200405201058.34008.4711@chello.at> In-Reply-To: <40ABD7C8.7050405@centtech.com> References: <40ABD7C8.7050405@centtech.com>
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--Boundary-02=_5MHrA4uYY/K2/Gd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 =2D-=20 Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x941B6B0B=20 OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu --Boundary-02=_5MHrA4uYY/K2/Gd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBArHM5cyi/EZQbawsRAh/xAJ9lwlcQ0u/izMzUFKzGvt5jDDKt/gCgmyb4 fWs/RwjNutFHP1zj156Sv8w= =oOij -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_5MHrA4uYY/K2/Gd--
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