[OpenAFS] Vice Partition Effects on Disk I/O

[chas williams]

>All this despite the fact that this server does not have more data on it
>than our other servers (around 10GB per partition), this server has faster
>CPU (2x300MHz versus 2x165MHz), and much more memory (1.5GB RAM versus
>.5GB) than other AFS servers in that cell.
>
>The disk is a 30disk RAID system, with 5 groups of 5-disk RAID5 sets.
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.

well i would like a little more information:  what version of afs 

. what version of afs are you running?
. what is the host system?
. how are the drives connected?

it would probably be a good idea to double check the connection
between the drives and the host.