[OpenAFS] AFS Speed

[Nathan Ward]

Arg I spoke too soon!

My values that I was getting were from iptraf watching the thruput 
between 2 machines.  I was looking at bits, not bytes!

I will try reiser tomorrow tho, and see if there is any speed difference.

My apologies,
Nathan

Nathan Ward wrote:

> Ok, WOW
>
> I took half the ram out of my server to make it 512mb (was 1GB) and 
> there is as Rubino mentioned, a speed increase of 500%.
> I will get some stats on it now with bonnie++ and post them.  It was 
> suggested by a workmate that this speed issue was due to motherboards 
> not caching effeciently when over 512mb (he has seen it at 64/128mb 
> and 512/1024mb) but im not sure that this is the issue in this case.
>
> Delete performance and small file performance is still slow, so I will 
> try reiser when I have a chance to have a long downtime.
> I understood reiser was optimised for small files, so it would be bad 
> in this case as AFS volume files are reasonably large...?
>
> Nathan Ward
>
> Jimmy Engelbrecht wrote:
>
>> Rubino Geiß <kb44@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> The current release doens't seam to contain that "afsfsperf"-program
>>> (ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/arla/arla-0.35.11.tar.gz)
>>>   
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>> And the CVS version doens't have any configure scipt (this file is 
>>> simply
>>> not there?!)
>>>
>>> Can someone please help?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> the program was called something else in 0.35 i think.
>> But the 0.36-version is major updated, use 0.36
>>
>> The problem is just that 0.36 is not released yet ..
>>
>>
>> Try this prerelease:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/arla/snap/arla-0.36pre7.tar.gz
>>
>> If you have problems with "arla" ,you just mail
>> "arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se"
>>
>> /Jimmy
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