[OpenAFS] Suspect AFS bottlenecks on a web server

[Jason Edgecombe]

Simon Wilkinson wrote:
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> On 21 Nov 2009, at 15:10, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
>> 1. My web server is on solaris, currently.
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> Yeh, I should learn to read. Sorry.
>
>> 2. How do I disable dynamic vcache support?
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> If you're on Solaris, you don't need to. Ignore that bit!
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>> 3. I'm rolling 1.4.10 because I already have it compiled and packaged 
>> for deployment. (using the AFS package program, if that matters). I 
>> have already tested these binaries on other machines. Recompiling 
>> would require restarting the whole test cycle.
>>
>> I have some data that suggests I need to increase the size of the 
>> vcache. It's about a 5% miss rate vs 2% miss rate on the dcache. I'll 
>> tweak the vcache size if the upgrade doesn't improve things.
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> If you're seeing a contention problem, that it's possible that a 
> larger vcache won't help. But it's worth giving it a go.
>

Thanks for the info about Linux. This will be very useful when we 
migrate the web server to Linux.

Jason