On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 13:28 +1000, Dan Mons wrote: > Specific to Linux, the NFS client uses standard filesystem caching > which has a few pros and cons of it's own. > > Native GlusterFS uses up application space RAM and is a hard-set > number that you must define. In our studio, our standard rollout is a > 32GB RAM workstation, so native GlusterFS clients are told to use > quite a bit of RAM for cache. When we connect up smaller VMs, often > they have less RAM overall than we assign just for cache, and as such > use NFS instead. Thanks Dan, I had not realised that. Useful to know. -- Cheers, Kingsley. _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
