Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!rusty From: rusty@groan.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: nfsd 4, why, and how to tune... Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 19:39:08 GMT References: <119@janis.UUCP> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: University of California Berkeley Lines: 6 In-Reply-To: ericw@janis.UUCP's message of 23 May 91 17: 39:03 GMT The metric I heard at a presentation about system tuning by a guy from Sun at the Sun User Group meeting is that you want 2 nfsd's per exported filesystem (or was it per disk drive). My guess is that's 1 to handle the reads and 1 to handle the writes so that if you export filesystems readonly you could drop the number of nfsd's. Likewise if any of the filesystems are accessed infrequently.