> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:08:41 -0600 > From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Fedora Infrastructure <infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Freeze break: cachefilesd > > Greetings. > > I'd like to take download05 out of dns and test out using cachefilesd > on it. We tried this a number of years ago with rhel6 and ran into > problems, but perhaps rhel7 might be more stable. > > Basically this would be setting up a 500GB cache on the server and then > caching 500GB of stuff from nfs. In theory this would reduce load on > the backend NFS server. There is a pending netapp upgrade and storage > folks would need to throttle our access while the upgrade was > happening, so the more load we can take off the filer, the better it > will be when we have to do the upgrade. > > I'd take download05 out of dns (so no one should hit it), setup > cachefilesd and test. If all goes well on testing we could re-add it > and see if handles normal load. If not or if it cannot handle regular > load we can just repave it and put it back the way it is now. > > 4 download machines should be fine for the normal load we have, and > this testing should long be done before the end of the week when we > might need to stage Alpha. > > Thoughts? +1s? +1 IFF david howells is involved and available to help. I am sure he would be curious at least to know you are trying it. -- Matthew Galgoci Network Operations Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 ------------------------------ “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” -- Mahatma Gandhi _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
