From: eric whiting Subject: Re: Maximum number of nfsd daemons? Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:28:45 -0600 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3D48B8FD.2A5094@amis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "'nfs@lists.sourceforge.net'" Return-path: Received: from 154-100.poccpe.cableone.net ([24.116.154.100] helo=gannett.design.amis.com) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17a7b8-0003wU-00 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:30:02 -0700 To: Daniel Barbar Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: What OS are the clients running? If they are solaris boxes you might want to consider the NFS/TCP patches for the linux NFS server -- NFS/UDP over a WAN can have problems. TCP might help out some. eric Daniel Barbar wrote: > > Hi, > > We recently moved one of our NFS servers from a Sun machine running > Solaris 7 to an Intel box running SuSE Linux 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18). We are > experiencing some (rather heavy) performance problems, more so for clients > accesing the service over our WAN link. > I'm starting to go through the excerise of tuning the NFS system, and > started first by trying to increase the number of nfsd process. It seems > that there is a hard coded limit of 128 processes, is that correct? If true, > is it because one shouldn't expect any substantial performance increase by > setting the number of nfsd threads to a number larger than 128? > Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, > > --- > Daniel Barbar > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board > for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! > http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 > _______________________________________________ > NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs