nfsd(1M) Maintenance Commands nfsd(1M)
NAME
nfsd - NFS daemon
SYNOPSIS
nfsd [ -a ] [ -p protocol ] [ -t device ] [ nservers ]
DESCRIPTION
nfsd starts the daemon that handles client file system
requests. Only the super-user can run this daemon.
The nfsd daemon is automatically invoked in run level 3 with
the -a option.
OPTIONS
-a Start a NFS daemon over all available connec-
tionless transports.
-p protocol Start a NFS daemon over the specified proto-
col.
-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 con-
currency 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. There-
fore, ps(1) can report 0 cpu time associated with the NFS
daemon, even though NFS processing is taking place on the
server.
SunOS 5.4 Last change: 15 Mar 1994