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32d599144dSGarrett Wollman.\"     From: @(#)nfsiod.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 2/22/94
337f3dea24SPeter Wemm.\" $FreeBSD$
348fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.\"
35d599144dSGarrett Wollman.Dd September 22, 1994
368fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Dt NFSIOD 8
378fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Os
388fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
398fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Nm nfsiod
408fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Nd local
418fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Tn NFS
428fae3551SRodney W. Grimesasynchronous I/O server
438fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS
447c7fb079SRuslan Ermilov.Nm
458fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Op Fl n Ar num_servers
468fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
47e1205e80SPhilippe CharnierThe
48e1205e80SPhilippe Charnier.Nm
49e1205e80SPhilippe Charnierutility is a kernel process which run on an
508fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Tn NFS
518fae3551SRodney W. Grimesclient machine to service asynchronous I/O requests to its server.
528fae3551SRodney W. GrimesIt improves performance but is not required for correct operation.
538fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
5451c20097SPeter WemmThis program controls the maximum number of processes that the kernel runs.
558fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
568fae3551SRodney W. GrimesThe options are as follows:
576ca76744SPhilippe Charnier.Bl -tag -width indent
588fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.It Fl n
5951c20097SPeter WemmSpecify how many servers are permitted to be started.
608fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.El
618fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
628fae3551SRodney W. GrimesA client should run enough daemons to handle its maximum
638fae3551SRodney W. Grimeslevel of concurrency, typically four to six.
648fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
65d599144dSGarrett WollmanIf
666ca76744SPhilippe Charnier.Nm
67d599144dSGarrett Wollmandetects that the running kernel does not include
68d599144dSGarrett Wollman.Tn NFS
69d599144dSGarrett Wollmansupport, it will attempt to load a loadable kernel module containing
70d599144dSGarrett Wollman.Tn NFS
71d599144dSGarrett Wollmancode, using
725965373eSMaxime Henrion.Xr kldload 2 .
73d599144dSGarrett WollmanIf this fails, or no
74d599144dSGarrett Wollman.Tn NFS
758570fd2aSGuy HelmerKLD was available,
766ca76744SPhilippe Charnier.Nm
77d599144dSGarrett Wollmanexits with an error.
78d628d776SRuslan Ermilov.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
79d628d776SRuslan Ermilov.Ex -std
808fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO
818fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
825965373eSMaxime Henrion.Xr kldload 2 ,
838fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Xr nfssvc 2 ,
848fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mountd 8 ,
852a2d4405SMatthew Dillon.Xr nfsd 8 ,
868657581bSMaxim Sobolev.Xr rpcbind 8
878fae3551SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY
888fae3551SRodney W. GrimesThe
896ca76744SPhilippe Charnier.Nm
90c0b0bcf4SMike Pritchardutility first appeared in
91c0b0bcf4SMike Pritchard.Bx 4.4 .
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