On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Doug wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > : So, the big question is whether there is anything we can tune to speed up
> > :the writes. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing
> > :most of the web processing. Overall performance on the reads seems to be
> > :best with nfs v3 over udp, which is what I'm using now. All of the web
> > :server directories are soft mounted directly, with no amd currently in use.
> > :
> > :thanks,
> > :
> > :Doug
> >
> > Well, NFS buffers are usually sent over the network the moment they
> > are full. If you are not running any nfsiod's
>
> I should have mentioned, I have 20 nfsiod's running. I started so many
> initially to help in the stress testing I was doing, but I left them
> running because the servers are handling from 2-4 requests per second and
> we have lots of ram in the boxes. Is there a way to figure out how many are
> getting used concurrently, or is too many not a problem?
?
You need to run 'nfsd' on the servers, not nfsiod.
nfsd - run on server
nfsiod - run on client
nfsd takes the same -n arg for the number to start.
-Alfred
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