Re: NFS Priorities

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 16:35:20 +0000 (GMT)


> debate we have been having in our department. The problem is this: If
> a user is using a machine that runs a NFS server, who will get priority
> for system resources? The user processes or the NFS server?
> I have discussed the problem with Rick Macklem who wrote all the NFS
> code for BSD and he said in BSD the NFS server would get the priority.
> Does the same rule apply to Linux as well?

It depends on the relative priorities of the NFS server and the user
processes.