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NAME
     nfsd - NFS daemon

SYNOPSIS
     nfsd [ -a ] [ -p protocol ] [ -t device ] [ nservers ]

DESCRIPTION
     nfsd starts the  daemon  that  handles  client  file  system
     requests.  Only the super-user can run this daemon.

     The nfsd daemon is automatically invoked in run level 3 with
     the -a option.

OPTIONS
     -a            Start a NFS daemon over all available  connec-
                  tionless transports.

     -p protocol   Start a NFS daemon over the  specified  proto-
                  col.

     -t device     Start a NFS daemon for the transport specified
                  by the given device.

     nservers     This sets the maximum number of concurrent  NFS
                  requests  that the server can handle. This con-
                  currency is acheived by up to nservers  threads
                  created  as  needed  in  the  kernel.  nservers
                  should be based on the load  expected  on  this
                  server.  Eight is the usual number of nservers.
                  If  nservers  is  not  specified,  the  maximum
                  number  of concurrent NFS requests will default
                  to one.

FILES
     .nfsXXX      client machine pointer to an  open-but-unlinked
                  file

SEE ALSO
     ps(1), mountd(1M), sharetab(4)

BUGS
     The NFS service uses kernel threads to process  all  of  the
     NFS requests.  Currently, system utilization associated with
     these threads is not charged to the  nfsd  process.   There-
     fore,  ps(1)  can  report 0 cpu time associated with the NFS
     daemon, even though NFS processing is taking  place  on  the
     server.

SunOS 5.4           Last change: 15 Mar 1994