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Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, mariano benedettini <marianobe@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:

> Also, if it is an NFS server, one should check the cpu times on the nfsd 
> processes.  I've found that many times there aren't enough nfsd processes to 
> take the load from many clients.  Increasing the number (double it) often 
> helps this.  The max in 5.3 is 20, but you can easily change it and get 
> around it.

What is the parameter to change the number of nfsd processes?