On 12/5/06, Rob Ross <rross@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> I unfortunately don't have data to show exactly where the time was
> spent, but it's a good guess that it is all the network traffic in the
> open() case.

Is it hard to repeat the test and check what requests (and how much
time do they take) PVFS server receives?

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> Well you've caught me. I don't want to cache the values, because I
> fundamentally believe that sharing state between clients and servers is
> braindead (to use Christoph's phrase) in systems of this scale
> (thousands to tens of thousands of clients). So I don't want locks, so I
> can't keep the cache consistent, ...

Having file handles in the server looks like a cache to me :) What are
the properties of a cache that it lacks?

Thanks,
    Lucho
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