Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: how many nfsd's should I run? Message-ID: <4218@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 22 Feb 91 16:14:12 GMT References: <28975@cs.yale.edu> <1991Feb22.012532.26075@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 16 In article <1991Feb22.012532.26075@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: >If you have too many processes competing for the limited slots in the >hardware context cache, your machine will roll over and die. You can >look up this number in you hardware manuals somewhere. For low-end >sun4's the number is 8. I run 4 nfsd's on such machines. The same >problem can bite you with too many biods. Given that nfsd runs in kernel mode inside nfssvc(), is this statement about contexts correct? If so, why is the default number of nfsds for Sun 3s 8? -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com