Seeing as how half the visitors to this site still seem to coming here via AFP-related searches in Google… this is something I’d noticed a while ago, but simply started adding more RAM as I had more lying around.
Find operations on AFP servers can really slow down the system. Apple have now produced a nice techinfo article with a really simple fix.:
Short, and to the point, but I’m still not sure if there’s a decent reason why they’re not telling us to put this sort of a change in /etc/sysctl.conf instead…