[OpenAFS] memcache or diskcache on ramdisk

Mitch Collinsworth mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu
Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:18:09 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Hartmut Reuter wrote:

> My experience with 1.3.74 is that memcache is really fast. We reach 70 MB/s
> for write and 48 MB/s for read of an 8 GB file which is about 20 MB/s faster 
> than
> with ramdisk. This was on SuSE SLES-9 with kernel 2.6.5-7.

Very interesting.  Could you describe what you're using for a fileserver
to reach these speeds?

-Mitch