[OpenAFS] Local performance

[Frank Burkhardt]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:20:13PM -0500, Dmitri Bichko wrote:
[snip]
> Unfortunately, I've noticed that sequentially reading a ~.6GB file from
> a locally stored volume is almost 1/10 the speed of reading the same
> file from a regular filesystem on the same machine.
I did a quick measuring on an Athlon 1G:

 copying from Partition A to Partition B: 13.2 MB/s
 copying from AFS (Volume resides on Partition A) to Partition B: 11.0 MB/s

-> AFS: -17%

With an older CPU, it would be a bit worse. On one of my ancient fileservers,
AFS eats 45%.

Regards,

Frank