Re: High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

From: Shanker Balan (shanu_at_shankerbalan.net)
Date: 09/23/05

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    Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:51:59 +0530
To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org

    Hello,

    Francisco Reyes wrote,
    > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
    >
    > >Also, if it is an NFS server, one should check the cpu times on the nfsd
    > >processes. I've found that many times there aren't enough nfsd processes
    > >to take the load from many clients. Increasing the number (double it)
    > >often helps this. The max in 5.3 is 20, but you can easily change it and
    > >get around it.
    >
    > What is the parameter to change the number of nfsd processes?

    See /etc/defaults/rc.conf:

    nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4" # Flags to nfsd (if enabled).

    nfsd(8)
        -n Specifies how many servers to create. 

    -- 
Shanker Balan
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