From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 8:49: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA3B37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAA843E42 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:48:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76F9243 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:48:47 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gACGjfm11091 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:45:41 -0600 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:45:41 -0600 From: Tillman To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS Performance woes Message-ID: <20021112104541.A10823@seekingfire.com> References: <20021105112912.Q69960-100000@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> <16a201c284f3$1b251690$6501a8c0@animal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <16a201c284f3$1b251690$6501a8c0@animal>; from laursen@netgroup.dk on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:44:47PM +0100 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message