[OpenAFS] Speed issue with openafs server

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:31:56 -0400 (EDT)


Up the number of threads the fileserver has (the -p argument) if you have 
not already. 128 is the maximum.

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> I've a speed issue with my server.
> I've 7 afs server, all with fileserver, ptserver, volserver, buserver and 
> vlserver running.
> Servers are all running on NetBSD 3.1 with openafs-1.4.4.
> I ran my test on windows with the last version of openafs-win32 (1.5.2300).
>
> I launch a copy on over 150 client of a 100MB file (the same for all 
> clients).
> Of course the copy is a little bit slow and it's normal but while browsing 
> the afs it's really slow.
> A simple "ls -l" in /afs/epitech.net (my cell) takes about 30sec or even 
> more, a simple ls is
> immediate.
>
> On all my server I've a normal load with no process which take lots of cpu 
> except for
> the one who's containing the data (the 100Mo file) who has the fileserver 
> process at ~ 65% of cpu.
>
> Did someone have a little idea of why the browsing is really slow even on a 
> volume on a different
> server ?
>
> -- 
> Emmanuel Vadot          System & Network Administrator [root & bocal]
> elbarto@epitech.net     14-16 rue Voltaire 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicetre
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