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Date:      Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:51:59 +0530
From:      Shanker Balan <shanu@shankerbalan.net>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20050923122159.GW33413@yahoo-inc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050923080227.T58927@zoraida.natserv.net>
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Hello,

Francisco Reyes wrote,
> 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?

See /etc/defaults/rc.conf:

nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4"   # Flags to nfsd (if enabled).

nfsd(8)
    -n      Specifies how many servers to create.

-- 
Shanker Balan



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