parallelization and the storage manager

[Ben Rosengart]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:45:24AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Ben Rosengart <br+inn at panix.com> writes:
> 
> > I have overview striped across eight disks, and each disk also contains
> > a cycbuff.  The pattern I see is that one disk is maxed out for a while,
> > then the next, then the next, in the same order that they're mentioned
> > in the metacycbuff definition in cycbuff.conf.  So for me, at least,
> > overview is not the bottleneck.  I'm using ovdb.
> 
> That sounds a lot like you've got SEQUENTIAL set in cycbuff.conf rather
> than INTERLEAVE.

The pattern I'm describing above is what I see during a "makehistory"
run, not during normal use.

In any case, I don't have mode set in cycbuff.conf at all.

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