Is the default red hat 5.4 NFS server multithreaded?

[Matty Sarro]

Fair point. However its going to be running a base install with only the
core package group so there shouldn't be much going on.

Is the nfs daemon capable of leveraging multiple processor cores?
On Feb 9, 2011 5:54 PM, "Ken Rossman" <wkrossman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frankly, I don't see why any NFS server should NOT be
> multithreaded. Most operating systems running NFS server
> processes end up running more than one of them, to handle
> multiple parallel incoming requests.
>
> And being that processor technology is moving in the direction of
> multi-core multi-threaded processors as the norm (hence those
> processors won't end up costing much more than simpler ones as
> time goes on), it's just not worth worrying about to my mind...
>
> Also, keep in mind that the average linux(unix) type system is
> running lots of processes in parallel to support the general
> operation of the machine, in addition to the specific set of
> processes that comprise the intended service (e.g. NFS servers).
>
>
> Ken
>
> ----------
>
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Matty Sarro wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
> This is a pretty simple question but I can't seem to find the answer.
> I'm looking to purchase a dedicated NFS server. Most of the vendors
> are pushing quad/hex core processors. There's one model left that
> still has a dual core. So far as I can tell, the default NFS server
> isn't multithreaded, so even dual core is going to be overkill. The
> server is going to be getting Log data copied to it N times a day,
> where N is the number of times the files reach a certain size.
>
> The only other thing the server will be doing is running a cron job
> which deletes files that are more than 60 days old. Pretty simple,
> right?
> The only reason I can see justifying a quad core processor is if NFS
> is multithreaded. Thoughts?
> -Matthew
>
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