Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!thurlow From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: how many nfsd's should I run? Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 22:02:33 GMT References: <28975@cs.yale.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: dhostwo.convex.com In <28975@cs.yale.edu> anselmo-ed@CS.YALE.EDU (Ed Anselmo) writes: >Is there a magic formula for determining how man nfsd's to run? Surely a question for the FAQ, except that there's no definitive answer :-) Someone I was talking to got a rule-of-thumb from a Sun tech support person that said, "Run one nfsd for each local disk controller plus one." If your nfsd's can keep all the local disk arms going, that's pretty good, and then you add another one. Less nfsd's mean you lose potential bandwidth, while many more mean you just have a lot of nfsd's waiting on disk. Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com An employee and not a spokesman for Convex Computer Corp., Dallas, TX Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com