On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:49:35AM -0600, Jesse Stroik wrote: > Dave, > > Thanks. This is precisely what I was looking for. I'll let you > know how it turns out. > > As this file system is likely to continue to increase in number of > files at a fairly rapid rate, we're going to need a long term > strategy. I suspect it may be necessary in the near future to > double or quadruple the memory to 32GB or 64GB, but the uncertainty > in the formula makes me nervous. > > For a situation like this, it would be ideal if we could specify an > inode cache size. That's the third request in a few weeks I've had for being able to fix the inode cache size to either prevent it from growing too large or to prevent it from being reclaimed prematurely. I doubt I'll ever be able to get the VFS cache capped (people have tried in the past with no success), so I'm going to look at providing a method for XFS to provide limits on the size of it's inode cache. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
