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Old 11th July 2008
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Default rpc.nfsd threads, how do i change them?

I've been investigating some nfs retransmits on a cluster of machines that i've got running, and i found a related article that suggests upping the rcp.nfsd threads. The article was based on linux though, and not BSD, so it offered no help other than the theory.

Is there a way to modify this setting on FreeBSD? All machines involved are running FreeBSD 6.2.

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When in doubt, head to the man pages. $ man -k nfs is a good place to start. It lists (amongst other things) nfsd(8). Reading that man pages shows the -n option. As system services are started by rc.conf(5), and /etc/defaults/rc.conf lists pretty much everything that one can use, a quick grep for nfsd gives
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nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4"   # Flags to nfsd (if enabled).
Just add that line to /etc/rc.conf and set as needed. Finally, restart nfsd using the script in /etc/rc.d/
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I actually had come across that -n option, and we gave it a shot. We tried increasing it to 10, as a start, and it actually made the nfs server unavailable after an nfs restart. Once we realized it wasnt working, we quickly changed it back, as this is a production environment.

Not really sure what happened to make it fail...

We're in the process of building a failover nfs server. Once we get that running, we'll continue our testing on that machine.

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