[OpenAFS] Debugging AFS sluggishness on MacOS 10.5.7?

[Samuel Bayer]

Derrick Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Samuel Bayer<sam@mitre.org> wrote:
>> Derrick Brashear wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Samuel Bayer<sam@mitre.org> wrote:
>>>> Derrick Brashear wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The questions I'd first ask are
>>>>> -is anti-virus in play?
>>>>> -is VPN in play?
>>>> Anti-virus is not an issue, I don't think, since the problem only arises
>>>> with AFS copying, not with scp or copying from NFS shares.
>>> It depends how the anti-virus works. There's a case in RT, unresolved,
>>> where anti-virus software on the Mac was causing a problem.
>>> So, anti-virus or no?
>> No. I disabled Symantec Auto-Protect, removed the -memcache flag, and the
>> problem manifested itself again.
> 
> Does it load a kernel module, even if disabled?
> 

Wasn't sure. Uninstalled it entirely, using a script provided by 
Symantec, and it appeared that a kernel module was involved, and was 
removed by the uninstaller. Rebooted, and the problem persisted even in 
the absence of the kernel module.

Sam