[OpenAFS] Re: vos move speed rates

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Eric Chris Garrison <ecgarris@iupui.edu> w=
rote:
> On 4/13/11 12:01 PM, openafs-info-request@openafs.org wrote:
>> From: Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:59:22 -0500
>> Organization: Sine Nomine Associates
>> Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: vos move speed rates
>>
>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:20:25 -0400
>> Eric Chris Garrison <ecgarris@iupui.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> > I've asked something similar before, but I could use some insight on
>>> > how vos moves actually work. =A0I have a volume being vos move'd from
>>> > one server to another right now, poking along in the range of about
>>> > 15-20 Mbit/s (on a Gigabit ethernet connection, on the same switch as
>>> > the other server). =A0Other times, I've seen performance more like I
>>> > expect, something around 300 Mbit/s.
>> How are you measuring these speeds? Are you looking at the actual link
>> utilization, or just looking at how long it takes a volume to transfer,
>> and how large the volume is?
>
> I've measured two ways, using "time vos move" and dividing the size by
> the time, and confirmed the rough result by watching the transfer rate
> on "iftop".
>
> I'm considering doing tests with other underlying filesystems than my
> usual ext3. =A0There have been threads about this before, and I gather
> ReiserFS would be great at handling small file IO, but it's out of
> development.
>
> Anyone have experience using XFS or other filesystems instead of ext*?
>
> In other news, I was going to try to attempt the wrapper script on
> volserver and restart with "bos restart server volserver -localauth" but
> bizarrely, I got this in reply:
>
> bos: failed to restart instance volserver (no such entity)

there's no volserver bnode. at least, there better not be.
no, the suggestion was to kill it (and only the volserver, nothing
else), and let the bosserver deal.
because it will. you don't get to do it this way.

> It's most definitely in my BosConfig, and the current volserver in the
> process list has the currently running bosserver as its parent. =A0The
> script is executable, and I checked my paths and it really should work.
> =A0I'd try the other way, by manually killing the other volserver and
> running the wrapped one by hand, but I'd be afraid it wouldn't respawn
> when it crashes later.

then you're out of luck.

if you wrap it in a script that execs the real volserver, you will be fine.
>
> I suppose I could try crashing the volserver with a file transfer and
> see whether bosserver respawns on its own...

it does.