[OpenAFS] clarification on client caches

[Dexter 'Kim' Kimball]

I just create a few big files and cat <name> > /dev/null, rename file,
cat again ... in a loop.

As far as ARLA and larger caches -- I haven't experimented with ARLA so
can't say.

Kim


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> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org 
> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Wes Chow
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:10 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] clarification on client caches
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > May have been covered elsewhere in thread and if so oh 
> well:  are you 
> > filling the cache until it purges?  I.e. did you initialize a 50 GB 
> > cache (in which case a huge number of Vfiles are created 
> and you have 
> > to be careful, at the least, with # of inodes on cache 
> partition); or, 
> > did you initialize and 50 GB cache and write into it until 
> the cache 
> > begins to purge?
> 
> I haven't filled the cache until it purges yet.  Since this 
> is still a testing setup, we don't have 50 gigs worth of data 
> on AFS to test with... (I'm copying files over right now)
> 
> > If you've fully populated a 50GB cache and the consequent cache 
> > purging doesn't cause the AFS client to go catatonic, I'd be very 
> > interested in knowing.
> 
> I'll let you know what I find out...
> 
> Wes
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