On 1/8/13 3:27 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > On 01/08/2013 09:02 PM, Jeff Darcy wrote: > >> * Why are there so many metadata operations, when those are usually rare? > > It could be our environment make the above more likely, because all servers > accessing glusterfs run a cronjob at the same time: > > - look up data from a database - create any "missing" directories, i.e. > mkdir /gluster/mount/... > > > It is "a bit" reproducible with the following script run at the same time: > > for i in $(seq 1 1000); do mkdir -p /gluster/mount/dir/$i > /gluster/mount/dir/$i/_logs /gluster/mount/dir/$i/pub done > > > When running this on 2 servers, I can see (successful) self heal kicking in > on one of the servers. I didn't test it very intensively - but on the other > hand, I *only* see these failing self-heals on directories created > automatically, as described above. > > Does it make any sense? Not yet, but it looks like an interesting test case. I'll try to run it on some of my own machines and see if I can reproduce it. Thanks!
