[Gluster-devel] nodes don't use swap

[Basavanagowda Kanur]

Jordi,
  We would like to know more details about your setup to understand what is
causing the bottle-neck.

Please post the spec files that you are using.

--
Gowda

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Jordi Moles <jordi at cdmon.com> wrote:

> hi everyone,
>
> i'm stressing a gluterfs system i've set up. i've given 2GB of ram
> memory to every node and 4GB for swap. now i've got the system totally
> stressed :) but nodes don't seem to be able to use swap memory. Is it
> normal?
> can i change anything to make gluster use swap?
>
> I've tried ddt, postmark and bonnie to create thousands of files and see
> how the system reacts, and the bottleneck so far is the ram memory of
> the nodes. They eat the 2GB the have and don't seem to be able to use
> swap.
>
> Nodes has also two processors, and i would also like to know if they can
> make profit of that or gluster is limited to one cpu.
>
> thanks.
>
>
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