NFSIOD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NFSIOD(8)NAMEnfsiod — local NFS asynchronous I/O server
SYNOPSISnfsiod [-n num_servers]
DESCRIPTION
The nfsiod utility is a kernel process which 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.
This program controls the maximum number of processes that the kernel
runs.
The options are as follows:
-n Specify how many servers are permitted to be started.
A client should run enough daemons to handle its maximum level of concur‐
rency, typically four to six.
If nfsiod detects that the running kernel does not include NFS support,
it will attempt to load a loadable kernel module containing NFS code,
using kldload(2). If this fails, or no NFS KLD was available, nfsiod
exits with an error.
EXIT STATUS
The nfsiod utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSOnfsstat(1), kldload(2), nfssvc(2), mountd(8), nfsd(8), rpcbind(8)HISTORY
The nfsiod utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.
BSD September 22, 1994 BSD