[OpenAFS] OpenAFS speed

Lukas Kubin kubin@opf.slu.cz
Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:19:35 +0200 (CEST)


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It didn't help. First I tried to set it to 900000 (the server has 2GB RAM)
then to automatic. Between changes I always restarted the openafs-client.

lukas

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Tino Schwarze wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:52:45PM +0200, Lukas Kubin wrote:
>
> > I'm running OpenAFS version 1.2.9-2 (Debian package) on a 2-processor
> > machine, where "vicepa" is on RAID5 (Adaptec) container installed. The
> > filesystem used is ext3.
> > When I try to write one 700 MB large file to AFS, it takes more than 3
> > minutes to complete. I tried this both locally (by generating the file
> > with "dd" from /dev/zero) and through 100 Mbps network. The result was the
> > same.
> > Is this normal feature of AFS or do I have to do some tuning?
>
> What is your client cache size? The file always goes through the cache.
> Therefore (if the cache is large enough), the file is copied to the
> local cache first and then (on close()) it's written to the server.
> If the cache is smaller, it get's worse.
>
> Bye, Tino.
>
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