[OpenAFS] Network becomes terribly slow when cache manager flushes updates over xDSL

Sean O'Malley omalleys@msu.edu
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:37:47 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Harald Barth wrote:

> About AFS:
>
> > If there is significant packet loss on the connection, it will go slower
> > still.
>
> My feeling is that #define RX_MAX_FRAG 1 instead of 4 does make things
> behave better if there is packet loss to be expected.


Also doublecheck your firewalls on the client and the server.

I had issues because various firewalls were dropping packet frags.



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  Sean O'Malley, Information Technologist
  Michigan State University
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