From top: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 14305 root 25 0 19388 4084 440 S 98.8 0.2 2899:01 rpc.mountd MACHINE:~# cat /var/lib/nfs/rmtab|wc -l 250 MACHINE:~# cat /proc/net/rpc/nfsd|grep th th 128 56883259 133294.866 60524.726 31542.261 5319.962 16142.680 11929.108 10629.967 10181.528 5611.520 109782.458 MACHINE:~# cat /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server # Number of servers to start up RPCNFSDCOUNT=128 # Runtime priority of server (see nice(1)) RPCNFSDPRIORITY=0 # Options for rpc.mountd. # If you have a port-based firewall, you might want to set up # a fixed port here using the --port option. For more information, # see rpc.mountd(8) or http://wiki.debian.org/?SecuringNFS RPCMOUNTDOPTS=