Re: Questions regarding `afsd` caching arguments (`-dcache` and `-files`)

Ciprian Dorin Craciun <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.general
Message-ID <CA+Tk8fzjkyuycqLcz-x0C8D=Qn1c9YrO_ZZ0t_i9D+j+_fVqsQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:11 PM Mark Vitale <[email protected]> wrote:
> The -dcache option for a disk-based cache does set the number of dcaches in memory.
> It has a minimum value of 2000 and max of 10000.


Is the 100K maximum a hard limit imposed in code, or a
"best-practice"?  (I've looked in a few places and it seems that it is
not a hard limit.)



> In addition, many of the options interact with each other.
> The best guide for how all this _really_ works is the source code - however, the
> source itself is quite confusing at times, so I feel your pain.


Currently I go with a trial-and-error approach.  :)

(I'm struggling to get AFS to go over the 50MB/s, i.e. half a GigaBit,
bandwidth...  My target is to saturate a full GigaBit link...)

Thanks Mark for the info,
Ciprian.
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