Yes, the afsio in the codecase does not use the client cache.

Jason Edgecombe <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 08/22/2011 10:22 AM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
>> In message<[email protected]>,Jason Edgecombe writes:
>>> I was wondering. What data from production environments would be helpful
>>> for the OpenAFS developers? Would it help us to set priorities? Would it
>>> help us pinpoint performance bottlenecks? Could the data be gathered
>>> without a significant performance penalty?
>> i think the primary problem here might be that there isnt an 'afs server'
>> benchmark that you can run.  you can bench the drives, network or the
>> cpu individually but there isnt anything (that i know of) to quantify an
>> entire configuration.  collecting sar is nice, but some systems dont have
>> the same capabilities so you might want something that is cross platform
>> (just like afs).
>>
>> talking to the fileservers though would be the best choice.  i gave
>> using afsio some thought but i havent looked into it closely enough to
>> see how much of the client cache is in use (which you would want to test
>> seperately i imagine).
>>
>I thought afsio avoided the client cache. Is there another option to use?
>
>I vaguely recall some idea of recoding client/fileserver operations ans 
>replaying them to the fileserver. Did anything come of that?
>
>Jason
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