freebsd-skq/usr.sbin/nfsuserd/nfsuserd.8

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.Dd April 25, 2009
.Dt NFSUSERD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm nfsuserd
.Nd load user and group information into the kernel for
.Tn NFSv4
services
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm nfsuserd
.Op Fl domain Ar domain_name
.Op Fl usertimeout Ar minutes
.Op Fl usermax Ar max_cache_size
.Op Fl verbose
.Op Fl force
.Op Ar num_servers
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
loads user and group information into the kernel for NFSv4.
It must be running for NFSv4 to function correctly, either client or server.
.Pp
Upon startup, it loads the machines DNS domain name, plus timeout and
cache size limit into the kernel. It then preloads the cache with group
and user information, up to the cache size limit and forks off N children
(default 4), that service requests from the kernel for cache misses. The
master server is there for the sole purpose of killing off the slaves.
To stop the nfsuserd, send a SIGUSR1 to the master server.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl domain Ar domain_name
This option allows you to override the default DNS domain name, which
is acquired by taking either the suffix on the machine's hostname or,
if that name is not a fully qualified host name, the canonical name as
reported by
.Xr getaddrinfo 3 .
.It Fl usertimeout Ar minutes
Overrides the default timeout for cache entries, in minutes. If the
timeout is specified as 0, cache entries never time out. The longer the
time out, the better the performance, but the longer it takes for replaced
entries to be seen. If your user/group database management system almost
never re-uses the same names or id numbers, a large timeout is recommended.
The default is 1 minute.
.It Fl usermax Ar max_cache_size
Overrides the default upper bound on the cache size. The larger the cache,
the more kernel memory is used, but the better the performance. If your
system can afford the memory use, make this the sum of the number of
entries in your group and password databases.
The default is 200 entries.
.It Fl verbose
When set, the server logs a bunch of information to syslog.
.It Fl force
This flag option must be set to restart the daemon after it has gone away
abnormally and refuses to start, because it thinks nfsuserd is already
running.
.It Ar num_servers
Specifies how many servers to create (max 20).
The default of 4 may be sufficient. You should run enough servers, so that
.Xr ps 1
shows almost no running time for one or two of the slaves after the system
has been running for a long period. Running too few will have a major
performance impact, whereas running too many will only tie up some resources,
such as a process table entry and swap space.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getgrent 3 ,
.Xr getpwent 3 ,
.Xr nfsv4 4 ,
.Xr group 5 ,
.Xr passwd 5 ,
.Xr nfsd 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility was introduced with the NFSv4 experimental subsystem in 2009.
.Sh BUGS
The
.Nm
use
.Xr getgrent 3
and
.Xr getpwent 3
library calls to resolve requests and will hang if the servers handling
those requests fail and the library functions don't return. See
.Xr group 5
and
.Xr passwd 5
for more information on how the databases are accessed.