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authorGordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>2020-10-09 14:03:45 +0000
committerGordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>2020-10-09 14:03:45 +0000
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Fix a few mandoc issues
- no blank before trailing delimiter - whitespace at end of input line - sections out of conventional order - normalizing date format - AUTHORS section without An macro
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=366572
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/nfsuserd')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/nfsuserd/nfsuserd.834
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/nfsuserd/nfsuserd.8 b/usr.sbin/nfsuserd/nfsuserd.8
index c4f0cafb3e8a..06b116a45387 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/nfsuserd/nfsuserd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/nfsuserd/nfsuserd.8
@@ -53,11 +53,12 @@ owner and owner_group strings.
It also provides support for manage-gids and must be running on the server if
this is being used for any version of NFS.
.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.
+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:
@@ -72,13 +73,14 @@ reported by
Overrides the default timeout for cache entries, in minutes.
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.
+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
+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
@@ -98,12 +100,13 @@ on the server instead of the list of groups provided in the RPC authenticator.
This can be used to avoid the 16 group limit for AUTH_SYS.
.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
+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.
+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 ,
@@ -126,7 +129,8 @@ use
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
+those requests fail and the library functions don't return.
+See
.Xr group 5
and
.Xr passwd 5