[NTLUG:Discuss] nfsiod ?

[Matt Midboe]

Michael Sandfort wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what nfsiod is/where it is? It has no man entry and I
> can't seem to find it in any directory on my system, nonetheless I appear
> to have 4 zombie processes with this name "running" on my machine right now.

nfsiod runs on an NFS client and manages asynchronous i/o requests. You don't
have to have it running on the client for nfs to work but it does help
performance. If you aren't nfs mounting anything then you don't need it running.
You might poke around in the /etc/rc.d/init.d (I guess this depends on which
distro you are running) or /etc/defults and see what you can do to disable the
nfsiod servers from running.

About the more general problem where nothing would run anymore I'm not sure what
caused that. Are you seeing it happen regularly?
 
Matt
matt at snsnet.net