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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: nfsiod -- necessary?
Date: 7 Jul 1993 13:15:48 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH, Dresden, Germany
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In article <21c0k0$n7o@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> pauls@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
>
>Gee, nfsiod processes running away like crazy, so I turn them off and
>things seem to work ok. According to the man page:
>
>
> Nfsiod runs on an NFS client machine to service asynchronous I/O requests
> to its server. It improves performance but is not required for correct
> operation. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>So given that, why run nfsiod? Seems like given the situation -- a simple
>client with a single user -- sorting out adequate numbers of concurrent
>threads is not a problem.
As i remember well, the nfsiod's are the `NFS buffered i/o daemons',
means: if you have them, your nfs i/o is buffered, and you app program
can continue its work immediately. If you don't have them the i/o
is blocking. Maybe, this applies only to one direction, i'm not sure.
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