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 --- Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Physics, University of Udine via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
