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Date:      Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:45:41 -0600
From:      Tillman <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS Performance woes
Message-ID:  <20021112104541.A10823@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <16a201c284f3$1b251690$6501a8c0@animal>; from laursen@netgroup.dk on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:44:47PM %2B0100
References:  <20021105112912.Q69960-100000@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> <16a201c284f3$1b251690$6501a8c0@animal>

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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:44:47PM +0100, Lasse Laursen wrote:
> How is the optimum number of nfsd processes determined on the server? On
> our current setup we have 4 nfs daemons running serving 3 clients
> (webservers)
> 
> Is the number of daemons to start determined by the number of clients or
> the number of files that has to be transferred simultaniously?

I use something like "ps waux | grep nfs" and check the CPU time used by
the processes. Add processes until you have 1 or 2 that are typically
unused in normal loads.

-T

-- 
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
	Ludwig Borne

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