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- From: mckee@fc.hp.com (Bret Mckee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Disk Cache is *disabled* in HPUX clusters. How to enable?
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 14:56:19 GMT
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- J.P.M. van der Jagt (jeanpaul@duteca.et.tudelft.nl) wrote:
-
- : Is this a HPUX feature???
- : Can a disk cache be enabled on HPUX in a cluster environment?
- : And what does the kernel do with the many Mbytes of memory allocated for
- : itself if it doesn't use that as disk cache?
-
-
- This is not a "feature". There are several possible explanations
- for what is going on, and the correct one is definitely NOT "the buffer
- cache does not work at all in a diskless environment".
-
- First, you don't say what you are doing on the clients. The hpux
- cache is fully coherent with respect to diskless, so if you are opening the
- file read/write, and more than one machine has it open at the same time,
- then all I/O IS done synchronously to preserve the semantics of read/write.
- For normal applications this is not a common occurance (i.e. all executables
- are opened read-only)
-
- If that is not the case, you might have experienced an LRU problem. If
- the two MB file just barely fit into the cache on your standalone machine,
- it is possible that configuring the machine as a diskless server made
- the cache (whose size is based upon the amount of FREE memory) enough
- smaller that the file won't fit. And with LRU, if it won't fit then
- sequential accesses are the worst case :-(.
-
- Please provide more information about your machines (memory sizes,
- dmesg, uname -a, a more detailed description of how you are running the
- tests, ...)
-
-
- Bret
-
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