On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 07:05 +0000, Robert van Leeuwen wrote: > One of the theory's we have is that the inode tree of the filesystem no > longer fits in memory which could result in lots of extra io's to the disks. > Also, the object-replicator will walk through all the files effectively > busting the inode-cache continuously. > A way to test this theory is to add more memory to the nodes to see if this > helps / moves the issue up a few million files but we haven't had the > resources to test this out yet.
If swift walks all files in a filesystem it really should use the XFS bulkstat ioctl to iterate through all inodes sequentially instead of going through the namespace. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
