[OpenAFS] OpenAFS speed

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Nathan Ward wrote:

> Several times I have mentioned this and gotten no useful response that I
> can remember.
>
> I am running OpenAFS on linux machines. Take a look at the context switches
> on the client and the server....
>
> (vmstat 1, look at the "cs" column)
>
> NFS solves this problem by having a fully kernel server and client.

Our client is fully kernel, and yet it's the client that people seem to
indicate is the big problem.

> People claim that "OpenAFS scales better", sure it definately does, but
> should this mean that it's maximum speed is degraded? I don't see how this
> can be..?

I don't think it should, or that it does. I think it's incidental.