[OpenAFS-devel] Patch to implement default tuning proposal discussed a while ago

[Russ Allbery]

Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:

> Those of you with giant client caches, I'm curious why you are doing
> this.  My own working set seems to be around 50-100 MB, and that's with
> almost everything in afs (/usr/X11, /usr/local, ...).

When doing some forms of computation and statistical processing, it's nice
to be able to load a GB of data set into the local cache and keep it
there.  One of the major uses of AFS at Stanford is for large data sets
and running commercial analysis software on it.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>