4 .\" Copyright (C) 1999 Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>
5 .TH rpc.nfsd 8 "31 May 1999"
7 rpc.nfsd \- NFS server process
9 .BI "/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd [-p " port "] " nproc
13 program implements the user level part of the NFS service. The
14 main functionality is handled by the
16 kernel module; the user space program merely starts the specified
17 number of kernel threads.
21 server provides an ancillary service needed to satisfy mount requests
26 specify a diferent port to listen on for NFS requests. By default,
28 will listen on port 2049.
31 specify the number of NFS server threads. By default, just one
32 thread is started. However, for optimum performance several threads
33 should be used. The actual figure depends on the number of and the work
34 load created by the NFS clients, but a useful starting point is
35 8 threads. Effects of modifying that number can be checked using
45 Olaf Kirch, Bill Hawes, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III,