[OpenAFS-devel] AFS Performance

Torsten Hoefler openafs@unixer.de
Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:15:44 +0100


Hi,
> > > we have strange performance Problems with our AFS server. We use            
> > > openafs-1.4.0-rc8 on both client and server side. Several files are         
> > > delivered extremely slow (with about 150-300 kB/s) and some can be read     
> > > with full speed of approx. 10 MB/s.                                         
> >                                                                               
> > My guess is that you too are a victim of one of the two delay bugs earlier    
> > described on openafs-devel. To verify that a capture file from tcpdump        
> > (preferably from the server) may help.                                        
> Thanks for your very fast answer. You can find the dump (dumped at the          
> server) of the client-server communication at:                                  
> http://gustav.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~htor/sec/tcpdump-afs.dump              
>                                                                                 
> (read with tcpdump -r, this file will be deleted tomorrow)                      
the file is still there :) 

does anybody has an idea for this case? We are really suffering from
this. Or something to try (parameters in the header or source files?).

Thanks,
   Torsten

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