[Pw_forum] nsfd

[Paolo Giannozzi]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 2:47 , Vo, Trinh (388C) wrote:
> I usually saw lines of ‘nsfd’ appear on the ‘Command’ column.  What  
> ‘nsfd’ means?
>
"National Science Foundation daemon". It checks how you are spending the
taxpayer's money, terminates your NSF grant if you are wasting it :-)

Seriously: it is "nfsd", it stands for "network file system daemon",  
it means that
you are performing heavy I/O via the network, using the nfs software.
This is something you should avoid as much as possible.

Paolo
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