[OpenAFS] Extremely poor write performance.

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 16 Jan 2003, Martin Schulz wrote:

> Paul Blackburn <mpb@est.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > It seems that you looked at the performance of 1 client with 1 server?
> > Are your figures for a single access to a server?
> 
> That is the natural measuring a user would do. That is what is
> important to *him*. That is what *he* will judge AFS on. 

I don't give my users a server to themselves. I wouldn't if it were NFS,
either. 

> How does this affect the "delete 10000 small files" performance? 

If you use a Solaris fileserver instead of Linux, file deletion
performance probably improves, for instance. There are lots of variables.