High load average mail server 5.3-RELEASE

[Shanker Balan]

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.

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Shanker Balan