nfsstat displays various statistics maintained by the NFS system. nfsstat -s shows server-side statistics, and nfsstat -c shows information for client-side operations.
1. To display information about the number of RPC and NFS calls received and rejected by the server.
# nfsstat -s
Additional note:
• calls: Total RPC calls received.
• badcalls: Total number of calls rejected by the RPC layer.
• nullrecv: Number of times an RPC call was not available even though it was believed to have been received.
• badlen: Number of RPC calls with a length shorter than that allowed for RPC calls.
• xdrcall: Number of RPC calls whose header could not be decoded by XDR (External Data Representation).
• readlink: Number of times a symbolic link was read.
• getattr: Number of attribute requests.
• null: Null calls are made by the automounter when looking for a server for a filesystem.
• writes: Data written to an exported filesystem.
2. To display information about the number of RPC and NFS calls sent and rejected by the client.
# nfsstat -c
Additional note:
• calls: Total number of calls made.
• badcalls: Total number of calls rejected by RPC.
• retrans: Total number of retransmissions. If this number is larger than 5%, the requests are not reaching the server consistently. This may indicate a network or routing problem.
• badxid: Number of times a duplicate acknowledgement was received for a single request. If this number is roughly the same as badcalls, the network is congested. The rsize and wsize mount options can be set on the client side to reduce the effect of a noisy network, but this should only be considered a temporary workaround. If on the other hand, badxid=0, this can be an indication of a slow network connection.
• timeout: Number of calls that timed out. If this is roughly equal to badxid, the requests are reaching the server, but the server is slow.
• wait: Number of times a call had to wait because a client handle was not available.
• newcred: Number of times the authentication was refreshed.
• null: A large number of null calls indicates that the automounter is retrying the mount frequently. The timeo parameter should be changed in the automounter configuration.
