> > > I have been considering running VMs to spread out fs operations on a > > machine with many cores. On a 12 core machine, for example, I would > > make something like 4 fileservers each with 3 cores, and the > > underlying OS would be doing nothing except servicing those VMs. Do > > you think this would allow for better performance? > > That depends on what performance you are talking about, but for other > reasons I would guess 'yes'. OpenAFS fileservers have been found to > actually perform worse if you add too many cores (I think it was over 2 > or 3; or at least you get very little benefit after that point, and > things get worse futher on). Hopefully that will get better, but for > now, yes, some people have addressed this by running fileservers in VMs, > zones, chroots, etc and allocating specific cores to fileserver > processes. > > Excellent, and it's in line with what I thought was the case. Thanks muchly.
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