Maximum numbers of nfsd processes bumped up

[Matthew Seaman]

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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