[Gluster-devel] Fuse mounts and inodes

[Raghavendra G]

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Raghavendra G <raghavendra at gluster.com>
wrote:

> Also we've an article for sysadmins which has a section:
>
> <quote>
>
> With GlusterFS, many users with a lot of storage and many small files
> easily end up using a lot of RAM on the server side
>
>
I think this article speaks about bricks. We can have similar
recommendations for clients having fuse mount of glusterfs.

due to
> 'inode/dentry' caching, leading to decreased performance when the kernel
> keeps crawling through data-structures on a 40GB RAM system. Changing
> this value higher than 100 has helped many users to achieve fair caching
> and more responsiveness from the kernel.
>
> </quote>
>
> Complete article can be found at:
> https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Linux%20Kernel%20Tuning/
>
>
>
-- 
Raghavendra G
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