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

[Tracy Di Marco White]

On 8/14/05, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:
>=20
> > 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, ...).
>=20
> When doing some forms of computation and statistical processing, it's nic=
e
> 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.

I don't currently have giant client caches, but I'm planning on using them =
on
a couple new servers I'm putting into service to be our ftp servers,
with the idea
being that the ISOs and binary sets will be kept in cache.  They don't chan=
ge
often, and the files (particularly the DVD ISOs) can be kind of large.

-Tracy