J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:07:32PM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote:
>> Chuck Lever wrote:
>>> From my experience, generally mountd (on most any server 
>>> implementation) has been a scalability problem in these scenarios.  It 
>>> can't handle more than a few requests per second.
>> Perhaps we need to look at multithreading mountd?  Ala Solaris?
> 
> Does nfs-utils commit 11d34d1 (below) do the job?

This solves part of the problem.  If mountd depends on external services 
like DNS and netgroup lookups, multithreading will help only somewhat.