On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:23:07AM +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: > Hi there, > We have here a FreeBSD system which serves > for more than 369 days without interrupt as our > internal webserver nfs server. > We lately discovered more traffic to our sites and > therefor mor use of the nfsd processes. > That meens, 20 nfsd's aren't enough anymore ! > On my spare system I compiled a new kernel > with MAXASYNCNFSD (or so ..) = 256 and > patched /sbin/nfsd to accept this. > Are there any drawbacks from this ?
There was a thread (on this very list) starting with this message
which covered this topic in some detail:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=676064+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20021110.freebsd-questions
Subject line is "NFS Performance woes" -- you can find the messages
if you go to
http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive//2002/freebsd-questions/20021110.freebsd-questions.html
and scroll down to entry 491.
Cheers,
Matthew
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