Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:10:34 -0400 | From | Peter Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: NFS as a module / kerneld question |
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I wrote: >> If you never use NFS (which I assume is the case, since you're talking about >> auto-removing the nfs module) then those processes are indeed going to go >> to sleep and never wake up. That's because you're *not using them*.
You write: >But what if you _did_ use them (the NFS module was autoloaded, remember?), >but not any more (which is why you'd want the kernel/kerneld to auto-remove >it)?
I find it hard to imagine an environment where you would occasionally NFS-mount something. If you did, you would probably be using the auto-mounter, which uses NFS continuously anyway.
>IMHO, two of those for each NFS mount (up to some maximum, or whatever) >would be much better than a fixed number of four.
The optimal number of nfsds is a tuning parameter, and is related to the amount of read traffic (not write traffic until write-ahead gets added :-() rather than the number of mounted volumes. --
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