Coda File System

Re: Fwd: Default password or other problem on first login after initial setup

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:19:41 -0500
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:06:32PM +0000, niraj tolia wrote:
> FWIW, I use a 6 GB cache though I do not hoard that much. However, I do 
> know people who have hoarded 4 GBs using Coda and run with a 8 GB cache. It 
> does take a while for them though to hoard (I think it has something to do 
> with the way the hoard algorithm is structured).

It scales badly wrt. the number of cached/hoarded files. The algorithm
does things like checking all cached files for each file added and
similar O(n) constructs.

I guess the 4GB of hoarded data consists of quite large files, otherwise
you would probably see some several second stalls, which result in
disconnections because the rpc2 listener thread isn't scheduled etc..

Jan
Received on 2002-12-09 10:20:45