6.6. NFS related performance commands

The NFS subsystem involves multiple performance monitoring and tuning commands. NFS performance is determined not only by the network subsystem, but also by the Virtual Memory Manager, CPU, and Disk I/O subsystems. In this section we present the NFS related performance monitoring and tuning commands.

6.6.1. The nfsstat command

The nfsstat command displays statistics about the Network File System (NFS) and the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) interface to the kernel. You can also use the nfsstat command to reinitialize this information.

The nfsstat command is a monitoring tool. Its output data can be used for problem determination and performance tuning.

The nfsstat command resides in /usr/sbin/nfsstat and is ...

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