Optimal number of nfsd? [was: Re: OT:nfs hangs with redhat 7.3]

[Jim Meyer]

Hello!

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 05:33, Tim Wait wrote:
> 
> > there has been a very, very great deal of improvement in the kernel's
> > MM and NFS since 7.3 was released.  you should consider getting/running
> > 2.4.19-rc3.
> 
> In a possibly related issue, do you have enough nfsd daemons running?
> Check /etc/init.d/nfs... this fixed it for me on an older version:
> 
> # Number of servers to be started by default
> RPCNFSDCOUNT=36

Here's an excellent question: how does one calculate the optimal number
of nfsd processes to have lying about?

Thanks!

--j
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Jim Meyer, Geek At Large                              purp at wildbrain.com