[Lustre-discuss] lustre and small files overhead lru_size question
Wojciech Turek
wjt27 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Jun 10 11:25:51 PDT 2008
On 10 Jun 2008, at 19:18, Jakob Goldbach wrote:
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>> My question is why not bigger values? What determines the max
>> lru_size.
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> The number of clients and ram on servers.
Is there a recommendation for lustre servers how much max ram one can
spend on locks?
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> 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.
I rather think of increasing lru_size only on few login nodes where
user access file system interactively.
Wojciech
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> /Jakob
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