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- From: fred@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Fred Whiteside)
- Subject: Re: Memory usage of NFS daemon bwnfsd
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.134701.13593@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Reply-To: fred@bws.com (Fred Whiteside)
- Organization: Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
- References: <1992Sep2.073146.2534@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:47:01 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In <1992Sep2.073146.2534@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, sci213v@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
- >I have a question about the daemon that runs on a Unix host to provide
- >print and filelocking/sharing services to PC NFS clients. I am using the
- >Beame and Whiteside product bwnfsd and it is running on Ultrix4.2 on a
- >DECStation 5000/120.
- >
- >I have noticed that over a period of time (a week or so) that the memory
- >usage of bwnfsd as reported by 'ps -aux' grows from 1.9% to approx 35%. I
- >have confirmed this growth with a DEC public domain programme called 'pmon'.
- >
- >The rate at which the memory usage grows depends on the actual usage by the
- >PC clients. By the way, the DECStation has 16MBytes of RAM. I have 5 PC-NFS
- >clients attached to the Unix box and the load is only light -approx 5 megabytes
- >of data a day between the 5 PC's.
-
- i assume that you have 5 Beame & Whiteside NFS clients, as PC-NFS
- clients do not use bwnfsd for authentication/printing.
-
- ahem. "PC-NFS is a trademark of Sun Microsystems and should not
- be used as a generic term to indicate PC implementations of NFS".
- (thought i'd say it before geoff had to :-))
-
- our version 2.2 daemon had a memory leak. it was fixed in the version
- 2.3 daemon. we are about to release version 3.0, which also has a fairly
- substantially changed daemon. i don't really want to send out the 3.0
- version until next week sometime, but the 2.3 daemon should solve your
- memory problems.
-
- hope this helps,
-
- Fred Whiteside
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- Fred Whiteside Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd., Caledonia, Ontario
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