[Linux-cluster] GFS RG size (and tuning)

Josh Gray jgray at nicusa.com
Sat Oct 27 21:13:59 UTC 2007


Yea larger - sorry larger I meant

<snip>
Yes, it is definitely possible that using a bigger resource group may help
with performance.  Since this is not yet in production, I would urge you to
do some testing now while you can and compare results from the default size
of 256 versus a setting of around 2048.
</snip>

On 10/27/07 2:21 PM, "Jos Vos" <jos at xos.nl> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 02:15:33PM -0400, Josh Gray wrote:
> 
>> Support said i would probably expect significant improvement with
>> more RG's but we went with the other file format before we tried that.
> 
> You mean *less* (and larger) RGs I presume?

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