[Lustre-discuss] lustre and small files overhead lru_size question

Jakob Goldbach jakob at goldbach.dk
Tue Jun 10 11:18:24 PDT 2008


> 
> My question is why not bigger values? What determines the max lru_size.
> 

The number of clients and ram on servers. 

Locks are held by server and client caches "copies" of locks even if
unused. A thousand node cluster each with a lru_size of 41000 would mean
a lot of locks on the servers.

/Jakob




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