multiple threads for mountd

[nfs-utils.git] / utils / mountd / mountd.man

diff --git a/utils/mountd/mountd.man b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
index 64e508a26ea2768ad39ca98e4384b9c36162105f..70166c1283a2aa58dace9149c4562dae6f0029ed 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/mountd/mountd.man
+++ b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
@@ -119,6 +119,19 @@ The third will be the path that the client is mounting.
 The last is the number of concurrent mounts that we believe the client
 has of that path.
 .TP
 The last is the number of concurrent mounts that we believe the client
 has of that path.
 .TP

+.BI "\-P," "" " \-\-state\-directory\-path "  directory
+specify a directory in which to place statd state information.
+If this option is not specified the default of
+.BR /var/lib/nfs
+is used.
+.TP
+.BR "\-t N" " or " "\-\-num\-threads=N"
+This option specifies the number of worker threads that rpc.mountd
+spawns.  The default is 1 thread, which is probably enough.  More
+threads are usually only needed for NFS servers which need to handle
+mount storms of hundreds of NFS mounts in a few seconds, or when
+your DNS server is slow or unreliable.
+.TP

 .B \-V " or " \-\-nfs-version
 This option can be used to request that
 .B rpc.mountd
 .B \-V " or " \-\-nfs-version
 This option can be used to request that
 .B rpc.mountd