[OpenAFS] Very large caches

Paul Blackburn mpb@est.ibm.com
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:03:45 +0000


I am curious: have you tried using RAM cache?
In my experience with Transarc AFS on AIX, RAM cache is very fast.
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cheers
paul                              http://acm.org/~mpb

Cees de Groot wrote:

>Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu> said:
>
>>[works for me]
>>Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>>[should work with latest versions] 
>>>Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>>[probs with linear lists]
>>>
>
>Thanks for all the info. I guess I'll just give it a go, then :-).
>
>(we run a webhosting business - 90% of the sites get negligible visits, but I
>want the cache to hold the binaries and the 5% of sites that do get a bit of
>load - the rest can come from the fileserver).
>