Hello Jesse,
Wednesday, August 22, 2001, 4:41:00 PM, you wrote:
>> I am setting up NFS on my Linux box.
>> When I start server daemons from init scripts or by hand,
>> everything is working fine.
>>
>> I tried to arrange these daemons to be run by inetd
>> but after I issue an NFS mount command inetd starts spawning
>> tons on rpc.mountd daemons. Log is filled with:
>> ...
>> Does anybody tried this? If you do, I am very interested in your
>> inetd.conf and/or NFS part of startup script. Mine is:
> Simple answer - no.
> The reason it can't is in two parts:
> 1. these daemons create their own socket rather than recieving one
> from inetd.
Please enlighten me: do daemons need to be writted with some support
code specific for inetd in order to be compatible with it?
> 2. The daemons must connect to rpcbind or portmap. Usually this daemon
> is not running at the time inetd is started.
I have rpc.portmap started just before inetd in my init script.
BTW, how portmapper
> These daemons must run all the time or performance will be REALLY bad. Each
> connection may request ~ 8K bytes of data.
For now, my machine is under very light load (around 0.0) so this is
not a problem.
But I experiment a lot with different Linux toys
(NFS,Samba,TFTP,BOOTP/DHCP,PostgreSQL,MySQL). I'd like to configure it
so that under light load daemons die out, leaving bare minimum
(ideally, inetd only)
I presume daemons spawned by inetd are supposed to be designed so they
lurk around for some time in case some more requests are coming for them
and die after a timeout? Can they be made to spawn additional daemons when
load increases? This behavior would be nice - no need to guess how
many nfsd daemons to spawn for NFS, httpd's for HTTP etc.
Want to know why I'm asking all this?
Go to http://port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua/vda/
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