Sophana wrote: > Hi > > I'm evaluating openafs 1.4.4 performance on centos 4 > I noticed some strange things. > > I'm doing a simple svn checkout (meaning write to afs) (server on the > lan) of a lot of source files (quite small...) (about 50mbyte+svn > overhead ~= 100mbyte) > When using gkrellm, I can see the disk write bandwidth at at a high > level (> 15mbyte/s), almost no read, and the network bandwidth is MUCH > lower (less than 1mbyte/s). It seem that the server is busy making a LOT > of disk writes, that are about 10 to 20 times the volume of the real > data being written.
This is only a guess but for every change to a directory the new directory contents will be written to disk. This is in addition to the data belonging to the files.
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