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Craig West cwest at astro.umass.edu
Thu Mar 8 12:58:45 PST 2007


There is a section on Optimizing NFS Performance on the NFS sourceforge 
site.

In summary they say that the number of NFS daemons should be 4-8 per 
processor. The article also tells you how to read some of the files in 
/proc to work out how much work the daemons are doing. Look at section 5.6.

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s05.html

Craig.



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