Really slow vos dumps to local disks

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

The slowdown I've seen is on the server itself, as well as remote clients -
in fact local/remote doesn't seem to be making much difference.

What's the nature of your data - is it BIG files, or lots of small ones?

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman P. B. Joseph [mailto:joseph@ctc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:46 PM
> To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
> Subject: Re: Really slow vos dumps to local disks
> 
> 
> Well, I learned that the problem with slow "vos dumps" is 
> apparently a well
> known (by everyone but me <g>) AFS/Rx issue.  Thanks to some 
> clues dropped in
> one or two messages on the openafs-info list I modified my 
> scripts to do "vos
> dump"s on each file server machine (instead of just the one), 
> and of only those
> volumes that live on that particular file server (instead of 
> -all- volumes).
>  The difference was like night and day.  I was able to dump 
> ~5-6 GB of backup
> volume data per machine in anywhere between 15 - 30 minutes.  
> Unbelievable.
>  Thanks.
> 
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