NAME

nfsd − NFS daemon

SYNOPSIS

nfsd [ −a ] [ −p protocol ] [ −t device ] [ nservers ]

DESCRIPTION

nfsd starts the daemons that handle client file system requests. 

The nfsd daemons are automatically invoked in run level 3 with the −a option. 

OPTIONS

−a Start NFS daemons over all available connectionless transports. 

−p protocol Start NFS daemons over the specified protocol. 

−t device Start NFS daemons for the transport specified by the given device. 

nservers The number of file system request daemons to start.  This sets the number of concurrent NFS requests that the server can handle.  nservers should be based on the load expected on this server.  Eight is the usual number of nservers.

FILES

.nfsXXX client machine pointer to an open-but-unlinked file

SEE ALSO

ps(1), mountd(1M), sharetab(4)

BUGS

The NFS service uses kernel threads to process most of the NFS requests.  Currently, system utilization associated with these threads is not charged to the nfsd process.  Therefore, ps(1) can report 0 cpu time associated with NFS daemons, even though NFS processing is taking place on the server. 

SunOS 5.1/x86  —  Last change: 5 Oct 1992