Linux – How to achieve multiple NFS/TCP connections to the same server

For troubleshooting purposes, try downloading the same file via wget or curl. I suspect that PEra is correct, NOOP commands will prevent this, and possibly wget or curl would send them.

In an ideal world, your batch jobs would have some backoff logic and you'd stick to 80 threads.

I'm by no means an expert in NFSd, but the rules of linux threading that apply to all Linux applications should apply. The rule here is that each thread takes a certain amount of space in memory, realistically, this memory amount is so small on an average production server (With double digits of RAM) that it's pretty much non-consequential, the more pressing concern is the way in which threads are implemented in applications like NFSd - Semaphores. Counting semaphores are an excellent way to ensure no locking conditions occur in a threaded situation, the problem is that semaphores keep track on threads and increment and decrement a counter to reflect 'free' vs. 'locked' threads, in order to do this, they must index available threads and check that against locked threads to provision execution time appropriately, this is done in a semi-efficient manner that grows exponentially, if you're NFSd requires very high amounts of speed, you'll notice an increase in computation time approximately equivalent to double the execution time to register a new thread, luckily, this is such a small lookup time value (one instruction) to begin with (Called the base if you remember Algebra :) , that you can have very large exponents without any major problems.

The Too-Long; Didn't Read summation - If I were you I'd limit the number of threads to your expected number of concurrent hosts maximum, but I'd also do some testing to ensure that execution time is sane with your expected values. I'm aware thats probably not a whole lot of help to you, but its very difficult to analyse appropriate configuration without expected use scenarios.

Also, on a side note, if you extrapolate Sun's numbers, a 2.2 GHZ processor should be able to run somewhere in the realms of 800 threads without problems, even if these numbers are essentially arbitrary, it gives me the feeling that you'll be fine with my prior suggestion