On Wednesday 22 September 2010, you wrote: > On Friday 17 September 2010, Stef Coene wrote: > > When we changed the FILE based storage pool to 5 GB volumes, the result > > was > > much better. There was less reclamation needed because it is less likely > that a volume has a status Filling. > > > Interesting concept Stef...just the opposite of what I did to fix the > problem. I'll give this a try also. Have you seen any downside to this > due to the large number of files in a given directory? I'm running RHEL > 5.4 64 bit on ext3. This is an AIX server with a 7 TB jfs2 filesystem with 1381 files in it. For now, no downside found.
Why have you changed to bigger FILE volumes? And do you use a DISK based storage pool as 'buffer'? Stef