[OpenAFS] Speed of AFS, continue...

[Lars Schimmer]

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Hi!

I'm kinda frustrated.
Network:
AFS database server on 1.2.13 on PII, no more than database server on it
Fileserver 1 on debian sarge kernel 2.6.9 OpenAFS 1.3.74
Fileserver 2 on debian sarge kernel 2.6.8 OpenAFS 1.3.79

The network between these three is 100MBit fullduplex full switched, yes, I
controlled this.
The PII has the HD on PIO mode, but for a database server, that is OK, or?
The other both fileservers has IDE 5400UPM HDs with UDMA5 mode.
Fileserver 1 has one system HD and 2 HDs for /vicepa and /vicepb
Fileserver 2 has only one HD with system, data and /vicepa

AFS Cache on FS1 is disk, on FS is memcache.

No I have got two volumes, source on FS1, target on FS2, both mounted in one dir.
I looged in on FS2 and try to copy two 2 GB files from the dir (mounted on
volume on FS1) into the dir mounted on the volume on FS2.
Speed is ONLY 2 MB/sec maximum and the FS2 is really under load, load of 5-6,
nearly latency of 1 sec while typing on another shell on it, but CPU isn't much
crowded, I have a dnetc (distributed.net) on nice level on it, top tells me,
most time, the dnetc got >50% of CPU.
Oh, both fileservers are Athlon 2 GHz on VIA 333 chip-based boards.
Is AFS really so slow? Or which switch have I forgot to set?
If I try to copy from FS1 to my workstation (both same machines), I got 4-5
MB/sec over the net... A bit faster, but NOT as near as line speed.
What can I try to speed it up?

Cya
Lars
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