[OpenAFS] Re: Performance issues

Jaap Winius jwinius@umrk.nl
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:17:34 +0200


Quoting Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>:

>> It's currently set to 128 MB on all of the workstations. I could increase
>> that, but by how much? I'm under the impression that, not far beyond this
>> point, the returns tend to diminish.
>
> That was the old conventional wisdom, but these days people find 1GB caches
> useful (especially since the cache was reorganized to not be flat). ...

But, wouldn't that cause trouble in the mornings when those  
workstations are turned on again and a number of them try to  
re-synchronize their 1GB caches across my relatively puny 6Mbps WAN  
links?

Cheers,

Jaap