Re: nfsiods?

[miquels@drinkel.cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.970109114409.30300A-100000@Templinux.bucknell.edu>,
Pete Templin  <templin@bucknell.edu> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>	I'm getting lambasted by our network administration for "killing a
>subnet with NFS traffic".

Hmm.

>Before he and I discuss the future of my
>machines, I'm trying to clean up whatever mess I can, so my machines can
>hide away on his network management station.  Which brings me to the
>question:
>
>	What script starts the four nfsiod's that are on my stock, Debian
>1.2 system (not upgraded from 1.1, but not necessarily 1.2.1)?  How can I
>prevent them from even starting at boot time?

Nothing. The nfsiod's are kernel threads. If you use NFS, you have
the four nfsiod's. They aren't real processes, just part of the kernel.

You probably just have a lot of NFS traffic. Try to run the most
disk intensive stuff on the machine where the disk is physically
located. Oh and if you just mount disks from other non-linux boxes
be sure to mount them with the options rsize=8192,wsize=8192 (in
/etc/fstab).

Mike.
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