[OpenAFS] need help tuning openafs

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:14:15 -0400 (EDT)


I read them list. A reply there only is sufficient. Don't also reply to 
me.

> Okay, the second time it boots, afs finishes after a few minutes.  But
> what does afs_cachetrim do?  I'm looking through the code, but since I
> don't have a great familiarity with it, I can't quite tell... looks
> like it's related to when the cache becomes too full, however this is
> a completely empty cache I'm dealing with.

The Cache Truncation daemon (which only calls itself cachetrim on linux) 
will:
drop stuff when the cache is "too full"
clean up any cache chunks which were "discarded" but not already freed.