[OpenAFS] Openafs 1.4.8 on OSX very slow

Hans Melgers hans@enem.nl
Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:34:53 +0100


I did, no change. Just tried it again, doubleclicking on the user dir,  
its got 9 subdirs (all 9 different volumes), took 3 minutes before  
they showed up.
Maybe a clue; opening a subfolder with no subdirs opens up immediately  
(all files shown), opening one with subfolders takes forever.

On 8 mrt 2009, at 23:09, Felix Frank wrote:

>
> Did you try Erik's advice about "disabling file previews"? Did that  
> not help?
>
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Hans Melgers wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Nothing special:
>>
>> Starting AFS cache scan...[141] waiting for afs_osi_ctxtp
>> found 198 non-empty cache files (19%).
>> [141] ok
>>
>>
>> it seems the closer to the cell name the longer it takes, so there  
>> could be a link with bulkstat. I do login as admin so reading any  
>> directory shouldnt be a problem.
>> But even a cd to a subdir in a users directory takes minutes, with  
>> the dreadfull beachball. Again, only in finder or my forklift file  
>> manager. Terminal acts normal.
>>
>> I did install the safari 4 beta a few days ago, maybe there's a  
>> link ? uninstalled it again but no improvement. Anybody else  
>> running safari 4 beta without having problems in afs ?
>>
>>
>> On 6 mrt 2009, at 17:25, Joel wrote:
>>
>>> Does dmesg report any issues with contacting any servers?
>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Derrick Brashear  
>>> <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com 
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> Hans Melgers wrote:
>>>>>> I notice afs performance on osx Leopard is very slow; opening a  
>>>>>> folder in
>>>>>> Finder takes up to 2 minutes to even display. I have the right  
>>>>>> tokens,
>>>>>> firewall is open for all connections.
>>>>>> Performance in terminal is much better, a cd and ls to /afs works
>>>>>> instantly. So it seems there are problems in the finder.
>>>>>> I noticed two afsd processes running. normal ?
>>>>>> Im also tried running parallels with the windows client on the  
>>>>>> same
>>>>>> machine, works perfect and very fast.
>>>>>> Does anyone have some tips to speed up performance ? Are there  
>>>>>> any known
>>>>>> problems in the mac osx finder in the latest leopard?
>>>>>> I'm running 1.4.8 with openafsconfig, MIT kerberos extras.  
>>>>>> Tokens look
>>>>>> fine. Mac OSX 10.5.6
>>>>> Was /afs the folder that you tried to view in finder? If so,  
>>>>> then it will be
>>>>> extremely slow with finder because finder will try to stat all  
>>>>> of the cells,
>>>>> which will take a while. Try a deeper folder, like
>>>>> /afs/grand.central.org/software/ and see if it acts better.
>>>> with -fakestat-all that shouldn't be true. there is the issue that
>>>> bulkstat does not (currently) work, which will make things  
>>>> slower, but
>>>> it shouldn't be horrible.
>>>> --
>>>> Derrick
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