Re: [OpenAFS] Suspect AFS bottlenecks on a web server

2009-11-18 Thread Nate Gordon
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > Derrick Brashear wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jason Edgecombe >> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> Our webserver has been brought to a crawl many times over the last few >>> weeks. I suspect it's an AFS bottleneck somew

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Openafs performance with Apache/PHP

2007-08-14 Thread Nate Gordon
On 8/14/07, Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nate Gordon wrote: > > So I loaded up ntop and isolated http, dns, ssh, afs, and mysql. I > > ran the previous test (ab -k -c -t 120 ) again for > > various numbers of users and here is what I came up with: > &

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Openafs performance with Apache/PHP

2007-08-14 Thread Nate Gordon
accessing the afs cache. If I can do further diagnostics/testing let me know. On 8/13/07, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Nate Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've looked through it before, but I usually get too annoyed when the > > a

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Openafs performance with Apache/PHP

2007-08-13 Thread Nate Gordon
On 8/13/07, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That -daemons value is way too high and will cause a ton of context > switches, so that isn't what you want. However, it sounded like you'd > already tried tweaking that. See the afsd man page: > >The default number of background daem

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Openafs performance with Apache/PHP

2007-08-13 Thread Nate Gordon
all. On 8/13/07, Jason Edgecombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Have you tried tinkering with the chunksize value? It's specified when > afsd is run and tells the client how big of a chunk of each file to request. > > Jason > > Nate Gordon wrote: > > So

[OpenAFS] Re: Openafs performance with Apache/PHP

2007-08-13 Thread Nate Gordon
r with lots and lots of small file operations? With the start of classes coming up soon this will mostly likely cause my server to do very bad things on a very regular basis. I'm willing to contemplate any idea at least once. On 7/27/07, Nate Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[OpenAFS] Re: Openafs performance with Apache/PHP

2007-07-27 Thread Nate Gordon
> This shows me exactly what I would expect to happen in on the server. > Aggregate requests per second reach a peak performance level which > increases the individual request time. The one thing I forgot to mention is that while arla is being hammered the context switches cap out at around 1500/s

[OpenAFS] Openafs performance with Apache/PHP

2007-07-27 Thread Nate Gordon
So I'm finally getting around to querying about some issues I've been having for a long time with openafs 1.4.4 on rhel (3|4|5). In short, the performance of my webservers serving up PHP code is less than stellar in some cases. Those cases being defined as the requests per second getting above 30

[OpenAFS] Re: GCPAGs = 8

2007-07-18 Thread Nate Gordon
adversely affect my servers. On 7/11/07, Nate Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm currently trying to debug some mysterious server crashes and am curious about how the sysctl var afs.GCPAGs works. From what I've gleaned from the archives/code is that GCPAGs = 1 allows the garba

[OpenAFS] GCPAGs = 8

2007-07-11 Thread Nate Gordon
I'm currently trying to debug some mysterious server crashes and am curious about how the sysctl var afs.GCPAGs works. From what I've gleaned from the archives/code is that GCPAGs = 1 allows the garbage collection of pags, anything else prevents it. Is this correct? Next why would my GCPAGs be