Performance questions regarding OpenBSD on Alpha
"Stephen M. Jones" <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:21:32 -0500 (CDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.alpha,gmane.os.openbsd.tech |
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Hi there - I've done a bit of reading and found a couple of comments that have helped me out, but I have a few questions. I'm hoping others on the list might have some insight into the issues I might face with OpenBSD on Alpha in a large production user environment. I need to use yp, nfs and quotas in a single fileserver configuration with about 10 clients supporting just over 30,000 users. Typical concurrent numbers would be between 2500-6000 users at any given time with consistent peak / lull periods within a 24 hour period. yp look ups shadow those peak / lull periods with requests between 2 to 6 per second. Is there currently anyone with an installation/load like this? I came across a comment in the 3.9 release that warned against using yp and quotas in a large installation. My question is would that warning be aimed at local quotas running on the yp client? If the ypserver is the host with quota'ed filesystems would this not be an issue? How is OpenBSD's MP support for the alpha? Is it something that currently has interest and is being worked on? As anyone experienced a problem with vnodes becoming locked on an NFS client when the NFS server's active vnode count reaches 200,000+ and the server begins dipping into swap? Do vnodes becomed deallocated and is there a way to limit how they are cached? Thanks!