[Gluster-users] Repeated file stats to non-existent files causing gluster to consume excessive bandwidth.

[max murphy]

Sorry for the lack of platform and version details in my previous message.

Amazon Linux 2013.09 which is a centos 6.4 derivative
Gluster 3.4 and 3.5

Share is mounted over the fuse client.

Thanks,
Max


On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:08 PM, max murphy <max.murphy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently using gluster replication to share a common filesystem
> across multiple nodes. Part of my application is a directory watcher that
> will end up doing a stat on a glob of file patterns. What I am seeing is
> that gluster will start using roughly 300kBps per watched pattern. Will
> gluster ever back off, or continue to try and force consistency even though
> there are no files?
>
> Here's a small bit of bash that will repro this:
>
> for i in {1..1000}; do stat /path/to/files/that/do/not/*.exist; sleep 2;
> done
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Max Murphy
>
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