[OpenAFS] Openafs 1.2.5/Linux 2.4.18 problem (dd bs>1500kb)

Valentin v. Seggern vvs@germanistik.fu-berlin.de
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:45:35 +0200


++ 24/07/02 18:52 -0400 - chas williams:
>In message <20020724142952.A1336@vvs.ath.cx>,"Valentin v. Seggern" writes:
>>The Computer has 128 MB RAM. I use 6144 KB for memcache. Could there
>>be some kinds of boundaries?
>
>well... 6M is pretty small for a cache.  i have had trouble with
>small memcaches (with irix).  does it follow the cachesize?
>for instance, if you have a 10M cache does bs=2048k count=4
>work, but count=5 fails?

No. In this case bs=2048k count=5 works, so does count=10.
bs=4096k count=2 works and count=3 works as well.

bs=5120k count=1 works, bs=5120k count=2 fails... 
bs=1024k count=1 fails, too...

Cache=10240k... 

Some errors in cache flushing?

Thanks,
Valentin

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