RE: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Neulinger, Nathan wrote: > Another possible scenario would be assume bypass until the file has been > read once. That would cause all initial creates to bypass, but later > appends/edits would return to normal speed. How much of AFS' poor performance is due to the CM overhead

Re: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Dexter \"Kim\" Kimball
>I wonder if something as simple as "track the total bytes written to a >particular file while that file is currently open, once it exceeds x% of >the cache, bypass" would perform reasonably? Is the write behavior necessarily this dependent on cache size alone? I'm speculating that cache state w

RE: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Neulinger, Nathan
I wonder if something as simple as "track the total bytes written to a particular file while that file is currently open, once it exceeds x% of the cache, bypass" would perform reasonably? It wouldn't help the small cases. Another possible scenario would be assume bypass until the file has been r

Re: [OpenAFS] afsd dead / weird config

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, > hm, if i disable afsd, i don't need the openafs.o module, right? Correct, but afsd (the AFS client) is needed to complete setting up the server. Plus, it's always handy to be able to access the AFS server from the same host... Some things work anyway (such as bos), but others do not (suc

Re: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Paul Blackburn wrote: > You probably will get better data transfer from ftp-client => ftp-server > than a distributed filesystem. This, at least, is a protocol. scp is a hack, which is why I'm reluctant to use it. > When it comes to "uploading" large datafiles from machine t

Re: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Edward Moy
On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 12:22 PM, Paul Blackburn wrote: Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Dexter "Kim" Kimball wrote: It seems that cache garbage collection has some limitations when asked to fill/purge in a short cycle. By the way, if you're going to routinely be r

Re: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Paul Blackburn
Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Dexter "Kim" Kimball wrote: It seems that cache garbage collection has some limitations when asked to fill/purge in a short cycle. By the way, if you're going to routinely be reading/writing large files sequentially, you may want to experiment w

Re: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Dexter "Kim" Kimball wrote: > It seems that cache garbage collection has some limitations when asked to > fill/purge in a short cycle. > > By the way, if you're going to routinely be reading/writing large files > sequentially, you may want to experiment with AFS cache chunk s

Re: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Dexter \"Kim\" Kimball
You might try using afsmonitor to inspect the client's behavior when you write the 2x file to the 1x cache. After the cache fills, you should see the cache filling/purging/filling/purging in a short cycle. "Cache files in use" vs. Cache files free (inexact terminology). This won't fix the perfor

Re: [OpenAFS] poor out of cache behavior on writing

2003-02-17 Thread Nathan Neulinger
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 01:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 06:36 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > At 5:01 PM -0800 2/16/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> nfs 0.120u 21.030s 4:19.47 8.1% > >> afs 0.5G cache 0.100u 517.330s 10:49.84 79.6% > >> afs 2GB