NAME

nfsd − NFS daemon

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

nfsd starts the daemon that handles client file system requests. 

The nfsd daemon is automatically invoked in run level 3 with the −a option. 

OPTIONS

−a Start a NFS daemon over all available connectionless transports. 

−p protocol Start a NFS daemon over the specified protocol. 

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

nservers This sets the maximum number of concurrent NFS requests that the server can handle. This concurrency is acheived by up to nservers threads created as needed in the kernel.  nservers should be based on the load expected on this server.  Eight is the usual number of nservers. If nservers is not specified, the maximum number of concurrent NFS requests will default to one. 

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 all 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 the NFS daemon, even though NFS processing is taking place on the server. 

Sun Microsystems  —  Last change: 25 Feb 1993