Original question:
>
> My performance is going to hell on 2 of our servers and I want to start
> up more 'nfsd' to see if that will help. However, I was told I could start
> up more 'nfsd' ON THE FLY by just typing:
>
> nfsd 4
>
> (to start up 4 more, for example).
>
> However, you do that and they seem to die right away since a 'ps' doesn't
> show anymore running.
>
Thanks for all the responses....
The answer is to kill off all the 'nfsd' *first*, and then restart how
many you want afterwards.
Most users had a nice little script to kill them off and then restart them
immediately so that the user community as a whole would not notice
the glitch in the network.
Thanks for all who responded:
jpd@cad1.cl.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
danielle@systems.caltech.edu (Danielle Sanine)
leclerc@eps.slb.com (Leclerc Francois)
mharris@jpmorgan.com (Michael Harris)
shandelm@jpmorgan.com (Joel Shandelman)
ajs6143@eerpf001.ca.boeing.com (Andy J. Stefancik)
bert@spike.penril.com (Bert Robbins)
amdahl!boole.att.com!tommy (Tommy Reingold)
trinkle@cs.purdue.edu (Daniel Trinkle)
rlk@Think.COM (Robert L Krawitz)
dennett@Kodak.COM (Charles R. Dennett)
dennett@Kodak.COM (Charles R. Dennett)
miker@il.us.swissbank.com (Mike Raffety)
brett@erm.oz.au (Brett Newton-Palmer)
poc@usb.ve (Patrick O'Callaghan)
oran@mustang.amdahl.com (Oran Davis)
nancy@aspiring.unh.edu
HILL@cgi.com (Bear)
espiritu@cgi.com (Rex Espiritu)
stern@sunne.East (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
ups!upstage!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell)
Peter Sivo
Amdahl/Advanced Systems
peter@key.amdahl.com
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