Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: NFS as a module / kerneld question | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 1996 17:28:47 +0100 (BST) |
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> processes are needed, how come they just go to sleep and never wake up? And
They do wake. > forking one process since it gets loaded due to a mount command and that > one nfsiod is necessary to handle that mount. But what about the other 3? > And when every nfs mount is unmounted, the original 4 don't terminate. They > just hang around. As a result the use count of nfs.o is always some number > that is equal or greater than 4.
Yep. They provide asynchronous handlers for NFS requests to do things like readahead.
Alan
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