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voliod

voliod(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 voliod(8)

NAME

       voliod - Start, stop, and report on Logical Storage Manager kernel daemons

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/voliod

       /sbin/voliod [-f] set count

OPTIONS

       The  following option is used by voliod: Force the kill of the last I/O daemon. Without this option, the I/O daemons can only be reduced to
       one.

DESCRIPTION

       The voliod utility starts, stops, or reports on Logical Storage Manager I/O daemons. An I/O daemon is a process	that  provides	a  process
       context for processing any work that needs to be done to process Logical Storage Manager I/O.

       When invoked with no arguments, voliod prints the current number of volume I/O daemons on the standard output.

       When  invoked  with  the  set  keyword, the number of daemons specified by count will be created. If more volume I/O daemons exist than are
       specified by count, then the excess processes will be terminated. If more than the maximum number are created (currently 64), the requested
       number will be silently truncated to that maximum.

       The  number of daemons to create for general I/O handling depends on system load and usage. One daemon for each CPU on the system is gener-
       ally adequate, unless volume recovery seems unusually slow.

       Each I/O daemon starts in the background and creates an asynchronously-running kernel thread and becomes a volume I/O  daemon.  The  voliod
       utility does not wait for these threads to complete.

NOTES

       LSM  automatically sets the number of I/O daemons when the system starts, so it is usually not necessary to set or change the number of I/O
       daemons with this command.

       LSM I/O daemons cannot be killed directly through the use of signals.

       The number of Logical Storage Manager I/O daemons currently running can only be determined by running voliod; I/O daemons do not appear	in
       the list of processes produced by the ps(1) command.

EXIT CODES

       The voliod utility prints a diagnostic on the standard error, and exits if an error is encountered. If an I/O error occurs within a spawned
       I/O daemon thread, then the I/O is not reflected in the exit status for voliod. Otherwise, voliod returns a nonzero exit status on errors.

       Usage errors result in an exit status of 1 and a usage message. If the requested number of daemons cannot be created, then the exit  status
       is 2, and the number of daemons that were successfully started is reported. If any other error occurs, the exit status is 3.

FILES

       The device used to report on and start volume I/O daemon kernel threads.

SEE ALSO

       fork(2), volintro(8), vold(8), voldctl(8) ,pthread(8)

																	 voliod(8)

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