Subject:   -83- Why is famd hammering my NFS server?
Date: 24 Oct 1995 00:00:01 EST

  It's partly a bug; get patch 165 for IRIX 5.2 and patch 166 for IRIX
  5.3. It's partly just famd's nature; you can try to calm it down by
  changing its polling interval (6 seconds by default, specified by the
  '-t 6' flag) in /etc/inetd.conf.  If you do install the patch, don't
  forget to add the '-l' flag to famd's line in /etc/inetd.conf.