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 [" options "]" " "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
25 .B \-p " or " \-\-port port
26 specify a diferent port to listen on for NFS requests. By default,
28 will listen on port 2049.
30 .B \-N " or " \-\-no-nfs-version vers
31 This option can be used to request that
33 does not offer certain versions of NFS. The current version of
35 can support both NFS version 2,3 and the newer version 4.
38 specify the number of NFS server threads. By default, just one
39 thread is started. However, for optimum performance several threads
40 should be used. The actual figure depends on the number of and the work
41 load created by the NFS clients, but a useful starting point is
42 8 threads. Effects of modifying that number can be checked using
52 Olaf Kirch, Bill Hawes, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III,