Rendezvous Daemon
Programs depend on the Rendezvous daemon, a background process (rvd), for reliable and efficient network communication. The Rendezvous daemon completes the information pathway between Rendezvous program processes across the network. (Usually the daemon runs on the same computer as the program; however, it is possible to connect to a remote daemon.)
Programs attempt to connect to a Rendezvous daemon process. If a local daemon process is not yet running, the program starts one automatically and connects to it.
The Rendezvous daemon arranges the details of data transport, packet ordering, receipt acknowledgment, retransmission requests, and dispatching information to the correct program processes. The daemon hides all these details from Rendezvous programs.
The Rendezvous daemon is nearly invisible to the programs that depend upon it. Programs send and receive information using Rendezvous communications calls, and the Rendezvous daemon does the work of getting information to the right place.
For details of the daemon process and its command line, see rvd in .
Multiple Daemons
In most situations, each computer runs one Rendezvous daemon process, which serves all the programs running on the same computer. In general, adding multiple daemons does not increase performance.