Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/nfsd
To: None <jonathan@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E.Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 12/06/2003 16:51:03
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@netbsd.org> writes:
> Increase userspace (/usr/sbin/nfsd) limit on nfsd count from 20 to 1024.
>
> Jason Thorpe suggests removing the limit altogether; anyone who needs
> more than 1024 nfsds can still do "nfsd -n 1024" multiple times, and
> this provides _some_ saftey-net against nfsd (issued by root) from
> eating all the avaiable process slots.

That many threads seems... wrong. Really, an event driven framework
would be far more efficient at that point -- probably vastly more
efficient.

Perry