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From: kenc@suntan.viewlogic.com (Kenstir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: nfsd 4, why, and how to tune...
Keywords: System tuning
Message-ID: <1991May25.003650.25402@viewlogic.com>
Date: 25 May 91 00:36:50 GMT
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In article <119@janis.UUCP>, ericw@janis.UUCP (Eric Wedaa) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to tune the nfs daemon "nfsd".  I'm calling
> it with the recommended call (nfsd 4) but my server stil gets a bit slow
> when folks start doing makes across the net.  Any recommendations on how
> to come up with some standard performance figures so that I have some 
> way to reliably measure my changes?  Or am I just being overly sensitive to
> the users and their comments on performance?

Upon recommendation by a DEC customer service guy, I lowered
the number of nfsd's to the number of actual disks I have, 2.
I found that the user on the console becomes significantly
happier during heated NFS traffic, as there are only 2 processes
against you in the battle for the timeslice.

DECstation 3100, Ultrix 4.1.

-- 
Kenneth H. Cox
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
kenc@viewlogic.com
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