[OpenAFS] WAN speed

[jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi]

>> I've tried to address this with faster DNS, installing BIND etc,
>
> Which part of AFS is dependent on DNS in any way?  I didn't think it was.

In no particular way, other than just how long it takes to find and reach
the OpenAFS server in the first place, and then whether each packet need
to do their own navigation and finally be ordered to be useful (no CS
background, remember :)

>
>> no notable improvement. Is this especially critical with OpenAFS, or
>> possibly when transferring a high number of small files (like Firefox
>> writing things to HD?).
>
> If I'm not totally mistaken, the sqlite databases are Firefox' main
> weak point in this respect.  It's not that it's writing a large number
> of small files (as would be the case if you allowed it to cache on disk,
> and used a directory on AFS to do it; you can just disable the cache),
> it's that it is writing to those databases all the time.

Yes, it seems very local-disk oriented, and doesn't even like accessing
this data concurrently from two sessions.

Anyhow, even changing the browser altogether doesn't solve the original
problem.

br, jukka

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