[OpenAFS] cache performance

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:18:30 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 Phil.Moore@morganstanley.com wrote:

> >>>>> "Nathan" == Neulinger, Nathan <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> 
> Nathan> Have you considered using the -syslog log mechanism, or are
> Nathan> you running on a platform with a syslogd that can't handle
> Nathan> heavy loading.
> 
> I think that option post-dates my hands on administration of AFS :-(

Nathan wrote it for OpenAFS, so, yeah, pretty much;-)

> Nathan> Yeah, that's what Derrick and I were thinking, something similar in
> Nathan> nature to fstrace.
> 
> However, I want to architect the mechanism to be a bit more manageable
> and robust than a debugging tool, and most importantly, we need to
> minimize the performance impact, of course.

Do you consider fstrace robust?