On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:32:42 +0200 [email protected] (Linus Widströmer) wrote:
> The client parameters which we have been focusing on are -stat, > -daemons, -rxpck and -files. > > Judging from the Git repo the default settings for these parameters > haven't been modified since 2003. Are the default values still > reasonable for a vanilla system or should they be updated? -stat and -files iirc are tuned according to the given cache size, and should generally be okay. Your use-case with maildirs is not normal, though, so it makes sense to tune them. > Are there any drawbacks of raising the number of daemons and rxpackets > all over the line of clients? We would prefer to run all clients with > the same set of config, rather than having to classify them as "high > load server", "medium load servers", "low load workstations" etc. Just more memory usage. iirc -rxpck should not be necessary at all with certain versions with some RX improvements, but I don't think any of those versions are in 1.4. > Any pointers to documents or experiences of running maildirs in AFS > w.r.p. performance and availability are of course welcome. "Don't do it" :) If you search the list archives, you will find some others that have tried doing this. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
