All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: sfaibish <sfaibish@emc.com>
Cc: "Peng Yu" <pengyu.ut@gmail.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does the machine need to be restarted after RPCNFSDCOUNT in /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server (ubuntu) is edited?
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:42:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100826204229.28aa9459@notabene> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vh1ivtybunckof@usensfaibisl2e.eng.emc.com>

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:17:43 -0400
sfaibish <sfaibish@emc.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:31:52 -0400, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:12:02 -0400
> > sfaibish <sfaibish@emc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:36:48 -0400, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:02:14 -0500
> >> > Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I changed the value of RPCNFSDCOUNT in /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server
> >> >> (ubuntu). Do I need to restart the machine?
> >> >>
> >> >> Or I need to restart nfsd? If so, would you please let me know how to
> >> >> restart nfsd?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Easiest thing to do is simply
> >> >
> >> >    rpc.nfsd $NUMBER
> >> >
> >> > it will change the number of running threads to match the number that  
> >> you
> >> > give.
> >> You still need to stop and restart the nfs for this to take effect.
> >
> > Have you tried it?
> Have you? Obviously not.
> 
> >
> > I assure you that running rpc.nfsd like this does change the number of
> > threads from whatever it is to the given number. (I should know, I wrote  
> > the
> > code :-)
> No it does not if you check how many daemons are running (ps) you will see  
> that it only
> changed the value not the number of running daemons.

We must be talking about different things.

sh-4.1# ps axgu | grep nfsd
root      2771  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd4]
root      2772  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2773  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2774  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2775  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2776  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2777  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2778  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2779  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9621  0.0  0.0 112308   868 pts/14   S+   20:39   0:00 grep nfsd
sh-4.1# rpc.nfsd 16
sh-4.1# ps axgu | grep nfsd
root      2771  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd4]
root      2772  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2773  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2774  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2775  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2776  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2777  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2778  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2779  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9623  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:39   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9624  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:39   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9625  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:39   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9626  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:39   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9627  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:39   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9628  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:39   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9629  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:39   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9630  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:39   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9632  0.0  0.0 112308   868 pts/14   S+   20:39   0:00 grep nfsd
sh-4.1# rpc.nfsd 3
sh-4.1# ps axgu | grep nfsd
root      2771  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd4]
root      2772  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2773  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      2774  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Aug20   0:00 [nfsd]
root      9635  0.0  0.0 112308   864 pts/14   S+   20:39   0:00 grep nfsd
sh-4.1# 


So when I run "rpc.nfsd N" and I check with "ps" how many deamons are
running, I find that N are running.

Maybe you mean something different??

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-26 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-25 20:02 Does the machine need to be restarted after RPCNFSDCOUNT in /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server (ubuntu) is edited? Peng Yu
2010-08-25 23:11 ` sfaibish
2010-08-25 23:36 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-26  0:12   ` sfaibish
2010-08-26  0:31     ` Neil Brown
2010-08-26 10:17       ` sfaibish
2010-08-26 10:42         ` Neil Brown [this message]
2010-08-26 11:59   ` Peng Yu
2010-08-26 21:43     ` Neil Brown

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100826204229.28aa9459@notabene \
    --to=neilb@suse.de \
    --cc=linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=pengyu.ut@gmail.com \
    --cc=sfaibish@emc.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.