Re: nfsiod issues?

Peter Desnoyers (pjd@midnight.com)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:01:15 -0400 (EDT)


>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Olaf Kirch wrote:
>
> >
> > In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960417013234.239D-100000@gytha.demon.co.uk> you wrote:
> > : Hmm, shouldent the nfs module have no kernel threads running when it's
> > : not in use (compiled in/insmoded, but no mounts (yet/anymore) ).
> > [...]
> > The bad thing about spawning nfsiod's when needed is that
> > if your first application happening to access a file on your NFS partition
> > happens to be emacs, you will be left with 18 MB of swap space occupied
> > for nothing.
> >
> It would be mount, I did say that active means that some filesystem tree
> somewhere is mounted, not wether or not the tree is being accessed or not.

It doesn't have to be mount - on my machine it would be amd. However, in
that case it's even less annoying, because amd is almost always going to
remain running until reboot.

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