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What's nfsiod?
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david Greenhalgh
22 years ago
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and should I be concerned taht I seem to have four of them in Process
Viewer (10.2.6, TiG4 and now 10.2.8 on the same TiG4)

Things have been getting rather unstable lately with kernel panics all
over the place. Process viewer shows four instances of the nfsiod owned
by root, I'm sure i haven't noticed it before. Does anyone know what it
is and why I need so many?

Dave
D.M. Procida
22 years ago
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Post by david Greenhalgh
Things have been getting rather unstable lately with kernel panics all
over the place. Process viewer shows four instances of the nfsiod owned
by root, I'm sure i haven't noticed it before. Does anyone know what it
is and why I need so many?
I don't actually know what it does. However, there are some helpful
basic principles when it comes to working out these incomprehensible
Unix names.

1. Anything with a 'd' on the end is a daemon - a faceless prgram
that does stuff in the background.

2. An 'fs' in anything usually refers to 'file system'.

3. An 'n' often indicates 'network'.

4. An 'io' almost always means 'input-output'.

I'm sure other people can come up with other examples, but that's all we
need for your (some of) question: I'm pretty sure it's the NFS
input-output daemon (a bit of extra knowledge helps: NFS is a kind of
Unix version of AppleShare).

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Chris Ridd
22 years ago
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On 15/11/03 10:09 pm, in article
Post by D.M. Procida
I'm sure other people can come up with other examples, but that's all we
need for your (some of) question: I'm pretty sure it's the NFS
input-output daemon (a bit of extra knowledge helps: NFS is a kind of
Unix version of AppleShare).
Further clues are obtained by typing 'man nfsiod' at the terminal :-)

It is used if you're an NFS client. On Panther I've only got one running;
perhaps it only creates new ones when I start mounting NFS shares.

Cheers,

Chris
david Greenhalgh
22 years ago
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...
I need a post-it with something to remind me to check "man xxx" before
asking questions! So, it is started by a client connecting to it's
server. I would guess that the server in this case is 127.0.0.1 but I
still don't understand why a single Powerbook needs four of them!
Filesharing is normally off here, on only when I need to talk to the
other machine (Panther, only one instance of nfsiod)

Anyway, man thells me 4 instances are safe, so presumably it's not that
that is giving me 2 or 3 kernel panics a day. Thank you to all who
answered!

Dave
d***@hotmail.com
22 years ago
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Post by david Greenhalgh
and should I be concerned taht I seem to have four of them in Process
Viewer (10.2.6, TiG4 and now 10.2.8 on the same TiG4)
Things have been getting rather unstable lately with kernel panics all
over the place. Process viewer shows four instances of the nfsiod owned
by root, I'm sure i haven't noticed it before. Does anyone know what it
is and why I need so many?
Dave
Off topic long shot but did you once go to school in the Harrow area?
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david Greenhalgh
22 years ago
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Post by d***@hotmail.com
Post by david Greenhalgh
and should I be concerned taht I seem to have four of them in Process
Viewer (10.2.6, TiG4 and now 10.2.8 on the same TiG4)
Things have been getting rather unstable lately with kernel panics all
over the place. Process viewer shows four instances of the nfsiod owned
by root, I'm sure i haven't noticed it before. Does anyone know what it
is and why I need so many?
Dave
Off topic long shot but did you once go to school in the Harrow area?
Ahh, no indeed. Northern lad, I am. Born and bred in Cheshire, sorry
about that!
Peter Ceresole
22 years ago
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Post by david Greenhalgh
Ahh, no indeed. Northern lad, I am. Born and bred in Cheshire
With that name, where else than the North?
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david Greenhalgh
22 years ago
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Post by Peter Ceresole
Post by david Greenhalgh
Ahh, no indeed. Northern lad, I am. Born and bred in Cheshire
With that name, where else than the North?
You know, me whippet's not been the same since I installed Panther
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