Re: [Opendlm-devel] Checkins to OGFS and ODLM

Cahill, Ben M wrote:

>
>Does anyone know why there is *so much LAN traffic* with OpenDLM?  This
>doesn't seem right.  It should be more efficient (less traffic) than
>memexp, at least when a lock is not immediately available (memexp just
>keeps spinning, but OpenDLM should not need to do that, should it?) ....
>
>
>...  But my LAN LEDs keep lighting up *very actively* long after any
>filesystem activity is complete, and it takes longer to do filesystem
>stuff with OpenDLM (vs. memexp).  Hmmm, I'm hoping that there's a pretty
>serious breach of logic in the OpenDLM code that we can clean up.
>  
>

If you look at openDLM list archive you will find a smillar discussion 
regarding openDLM and lan traffic. IIRC it is the locking architecture 
of OpenDLM the culprit.

-aneesh


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