[Lustre-devel] max_dirty_mb and fsync

[Bradley W. Settlemyer]

Obviously, when I write 32MB in the second paragraph I mean 4MB.  Sorry 
for the error.

Cheers
Brad


On 10/15/2009 02:52 PM, Bradley W. Settlemyer wrote:
> 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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