> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Teigland > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:47 AM > To: linux clustering > Subject: Re: GFS file size/performance question > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:38:15PM -0400, Jeff Sturm wrote: > > > gfs_tool settune $fs glock_purge 50 > > > There have been many prior articles posted on GFS > performance. Search > > for e.g. "glock trimming patch". > > That purge/trimming thing was a hack for a very particular > corner case (backup process walking over the entire fs and > caching all locks on the fs). Enabling it under other > circumstances will most likely *hurt* your performance by > artificially reducing normal gfs caching. In our case it was a periodic rsync process. The OP was asking about large numbers of files, so he may have had something similar. The gradual slowdown of a single node sounds a lot like what we had seen with rsync. Jeff -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster