[Gluster-users] caching.

Daniel Goolsby danielgoolsby at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 12:29:43 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Craig Carl <craig at gluster.com> wrote:

> Daniel -
>    An idea and questions -
>
> 1. Are you fsync()'ing the directories after you create them? Could you try
> that?
> 2. Are you sure you are only accessing Gluster via the Gluster mountpoint?
> 3. What version of Gluster?
> 4. What OS, version and file system are you using?
> 5. How many storage servers, what is your distribution model? (Replicate,
> pure distribute?)
> 6. How are you mounting Gluster? How many clients?
> 7. Can we get the exact error your script is getting?
> 8. Can you send the Gluster error log from one of the affected storage
> servers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig
>
> -->
> Craig Carl
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Gluster
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Daniel Goolsby" <danielgoolsby at gmail.com>
> *To: *gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Sent: *Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:28:10 AM
> *Subject: *[Gluster-users] caching.
>
>
> I seem to have some kind of caching issue.  I have a process that will
> create hundreds of directories, then immediately spawn a parallel process
> across multiple nodes.  The job ends of failing because some of the nodes
> cannot see the directories that the first process created.  If I wait a few
> minutes then start the parallel process, it will succeed, which makes me
> believe some of the nodes just don't see the directories yet.
>
> Is there a way to disable caching (or if someone knows of something else I
> could check, I'd appreciate)?
>
> I saw there was an "option cache-timeout"  but didn't get any better
> results
> setting that to 0.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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