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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: optimal number of nfsd on a DECsystem 5810?
Message-ID: <2901@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 90 06:22:30 GMT
References: <1990Sep24.215836.2081@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <1990Sep24.215836.2081@forwiss.uni-passau.de>, gengenba@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Michael Gengenbach) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> we have a DECsystem 5810 with one KDB 50 and 3 RA90 disks.... 
> 
> So what number of nfsd would you recommend (I think too much would be
> a problem due to too much context-switches)?
> 

  We have 8 resident on ours.  I would not worry about the context switch rate:
  The "load" that the extra nfsd's create will be relatively negligable.

  - you can get an idea of before and after by running vmstat.

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny
  pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org