[OpenAFS-devel] more on the 2.2.18pre17 SMP cpu hog/etc.

[Derek Atkins]

How much RAM is in your home machine?

-derek

Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> "Patrick J. Hennessey" wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> > > After a very long time, it actually finished and mounted /afs.
> > 
> > The first time afsd runs it has to create a bunch of inode cache entries
> > and dirs.  This is noticably inefficient, especially if you configure a
> > large cache.  If you wait it out afsd will start much quicker the second
> > time around.
> 
> I've been running AFS for years. The cache was already built, and even
> if it hadn't been, the cache creation has never (on any platform I've
> used afs on - even slow p.o.s. aix boxes) driven the machine into the
> ground. Starting afs on my home box manually results in X being
> virtually unusable - and this is on a dual-850-piii w/ 512MB of memory.
> 
> In any case, the slowdown occurs AFTER the cache files are created,
> during the second pass through the cache activating the cache inodes -
> where it potentially creates/checks the contents of the cache files. 
> 
> BTW, this is on reiserfs, I've got linux x86 machines at work that
> create 350 MB afs caches from scratch (empty filesystem) in a matter of
> 30-40 SECONDS. This slowdown resulted in afsd w/ a 3.5MB afs cache
> taking 10 MINUTES to start.
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> CIS - Systems Programming                Fax: (573) 341-4216
> _______________________________________________
> OpenAFS-devel mailing list
> OpenAFS-devel@openafs.org
> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/openafs-devel

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/      PP-ASEL      N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available