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Date:      Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:02:22 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Ernest H. Rice, III" <ehr3@ehr3.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rpc.statd and NFS Server on 4.8-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20030720020222.GA66450@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200307192112.21558.ehr3@ehr3.com>
References:  <200307192112.21558.ehr3@ehr3.com>

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On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:12:21PM -0400, Ernest H. Rice, III wrote:
> Folks:
> Excuse the interruption, but I have a probably very stupid question...
>=20
> I enabled NFS Server facilities on my 4.8.2 FreeBSD system recently.
> I export ONE directory, and when nfs is started (via the normal booting=
=20
> process) my internet connectivity slows down. Additionally, my system can=
 run=20
> out of swap space (I have 128 MB RAM and 512 MB swap). I never ran out of=
=20
> swap before on FreeBSD and this troubled me.
>=20
> I ran top and saw rpc.statd usurping about 257M of memory.
> When I disable NFS Server facilities, and reboot, my internet performance=
=20
> returns (and - of course - rpc.statd is no longer running. Also, I no lon=
ger=20
> run short of swap.
>=20
> When I export the directory I have one line in /etc/exports which just li=
sts=20
> the directory to be exported.
>=20
> What am I doing wrong to have rpc.statd using SO MUCH memory.

This question is answered in the FAQ (short answer: it's not).

Kris

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