Nobody has any idea about this? Isn't AFS designed to be used over "normal" internet links? Or am I the only one with this slowing-down problem?
I'll be really happy if anybody would help me... Frédéric Grelot. ----- "Goulou" <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi all, > > I'm trying to give my users an access to their home directory over the > Internet, so they can connect to there account from their homes > (place, not directory...). > Unfortunately, my tests show that when a large update occurs to the > disk (for example, the user download a file and puts it in any > directory, or makes a copy from USB to home dir), the connection > always becomes terribly slow (ping>1000ms), and any other request > takes ages to return (thus, if the user uses firefox for example, > since it makes quite a lot of disk access to the ".mozilla" directory, > its interface freezes until the update if over and ping becomes normal > again, i.e 60ms) > > I managed to optimize this by setting a chunksize of 8kb (smaller > seems to fail, because my cache is between about 500Mo-2Go, and that > makes too many files for the cachemanager I think), and by adding an > "fs st -allfiles 20000" in afs.conf like this: > afs_server_prefs() { fs storebehind -allfiles 20000 } > It is slighly better with these settings : I still get ping >1000ms, > but less often... > > Is there any ways to enhance this again, or should I set some QoS on > the system to prevent afs daemon to send to many packets at the same > time (a solution that I'd rather avoid, since I'll not have full > control over the client's systems...)? > > Tanks a lot for your advices! > > Frédéric. > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
