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> I am looking for any suggestions on tuning AFS so the I/O throughput
> starts approaching that of standard unix. I understand
> there is a reasonable amount of overhead associated with AFS but the
> performance we are experiencing is abysmal at times (6 KB / sec).
That is bad in anybodies book. But you do not say enough about your setup.
Do you use an afs client to do your backup ?
What kind of network are you using (ppp over modems ? :-) How much
load is on the network. What throughput do you get from ping ?
Apart from kByte/sec, what is the number of *files* you get through per
second - If you backup many small files, the network overhead for each
open could be extremely high, and is impervious to twiddling the chunk
size, or placing the disk cache onto a RAM disk.
Thomas
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