On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Nemanja Miletic wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone think that turning on journaling on files could help us > speed up the access to gfs partition? > > This would be difficult because journaling can be turned on only on > files that are empty. We have a large number of empty files of active > users that download all their mail from pop3 server, so turning on > jurnaling for them should be possible. Data journaling might help, it will speed up fsync(), but will increase the i/o going to your storage. > What size should be the journals when file journaling is on? Continue to use the default. Another thing you might try is disabling the drop-locks callback, allowing GFS to cache more locks. Do this before you mount: echo "0" >> /proc/cluster/lock_dlm/drop_count Dave -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
