[OpenAFS] Stat cache slowness on RH 7.1?

[Neulinger, Nathan]

I have seen this behavior on my desktop as well.

I'm running current cvs of openafs on a desktop 100Mbit connection, so it
should definately not be the network.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:57 PM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Stat cache slowness on RH 7.1?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a laptop running RH 7.1 and it appears that the AFS stat
> cache is being REALLY slow.  It seems to take a very long time to,
> say, autocomplete, or perform any other function that requires stat()
> on an uncached file.  But this only happens the 'first' time -- once
> the information is in the stat cache, lookups are really fast.
> 
> This certainly happens with 1.0.4.  I don't know if it happens with
> 1.1.1.  Mostly, I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this
> problem?
> 
> The laptop in question is a ThinkPad A22m.  It doesn't matter whether
> I use a Lucent 802.11 card or a 3com 10Base-T card.
> 
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
> 
> -derek
> 
> PS: Yes, this is reproducible; all I need to do is reboot the
> machine and the slowness returns until the stat cache is filled
> again.
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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