[Lustre-devel] max_dirty_mb and fsync
Bradley W. Settlemyer
settlemyerbw at ornl.gov
Thu Oct 15 11:52:02 PDT 2009
Hello
What is the difference between setting the max_dirty_mb setting in
/proc to 4 and making sure that all of my applications fsync every 4MBs
of data that are transmitted?
I would guess that one difference is the 32MB is a filesystem-wide
setting rather than a per file setting -- so the sync occurs regardless
of the number of files receiving data. But are there any other
differences with regards to the interaction with the file system.
More to the point perhaps, does an fsync have additional side effects
beyond those that occur for the max_dirty_mb threshhold being exceeded?
Cheers,
Brad
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