Re: [OpenAFS] Re: afs.GCPAGs in current releases under Linux (RHEL4/5)

2010-03-05 Thread Eric . Hagberg
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Simon Wilkinson wrote: However, if this was happening correctly, Eric should be seeing his system load peak and trough. Performance will be good every 10 minutes, and then slowly deteriorate until the next garbage collector run comes along. From what he's reporting, that doe

Re: [OpenAFS] afs.GCPAGs in current releases under Linux (RHEL4/5)

2010-03-05 Thread Eric . Hagberg
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Simon Wilkinson wrote: One thing I'd noticed in RHEL4 tests (systemtap doesn't seem to give the same result under RHEL5) is that the system time usage corresponds to high frequencies of calling afs_ComputePAGStats. Compiling with AFS_NOSTATS defined or commenting out the sect

Re: [OpenAFS] afs.GCPAGs in current releases under Linux (RHEL4/5)

2010-03-05 Thread Eric . Hagberg
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Simon Wilkinson wrote: Things are quite different in 1.5 - keyrings are the authoritative source of PAG information. If you have time, it would be great if you could do the same tests with 1.5, and see if you experience similar problems. This took a little longer to set up

Re: [OpenAFS] afs.GCPAGs in current releases under Linux (RHEL4/5)

2010-03-04 Thread Eric . Hagberg
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Derrick Brashear wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:20 PM, wrote: I've found that if you run a program to generate tokens and pags frequently (about once per second), that fairly soon, the cpu system time on the i try to generate pags less often than that. Me too, but you

[OpenAFS] afs.GCPAGs in current releases under Linux (RHEL4/5)

2010-03-04 Thread Eric . Hagberg
I've found that if you run a program to generate tokens and pags frequently (about once per second), that fairly soon, the cpu system time on the machine will begin to swallow performance, though it takes a little while to observe it... but if you do that long enough, the machine will eventuall