From: Michael Hampicke <mgehampicke@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:53:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPZhupfd9L1_KwhU9Tg9sEDBTDLNzhBsWZc2txqT4_mmoS8vQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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2012/8/13 Daniel Troeder <daniel@admin-box.com>
> On 13.08.2012 15:16, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > - about 20GB
> > - 100.000 directories
> > - about 2 million files
> >
> > The system has 2x Intel Xon Quad-cores (Nehalem), 16GB of RAM and two
> > 10.000rpm hard drives running a RAID1.
> 1st thought: switch to SSDs
> 2nd thought: maybe lots of writes? -> get a SSD for the fs metadata
> 3rd thought: purging old files with "find"? your cache system should
> have some kind of DB that holds that information.
>
>
1: SSDs are not possible atm. The machine is in a data center abroad.
2: Writes are not that much of a problem at this time.
3: Well, it's a 3rd party application that - in theory - should take care
of removing old files. Sadly, it does not work as it's supposed to be,
While time passes the number of orphans grow :(
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-13 13:16 [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files Michael Hampicke
2012-08-13 13:22 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-08-13 13:54 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-13 14:19 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-08-13 14:42 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-13 14:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-13 15:26 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-13 15:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-13 17:14 ` Florian Philipp
2012-08-13 18:18 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-14 14:00 ` Florian Philipp
2012-08-14 17:42 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-13 14:40 ` Dale
2012-08-13 14:58 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-13 15:20 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-08-13 14:38 ` Daniel Troeder
2012-08-13 14:53 ` Michael Hampicke [this message]
2012-08-14 8:21 ` Daniel Troeder
2012-08-14 9:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-14 13:00 ` Florian Philipp
2012-08-14 13:54 ` Daniel Troeder
2012-08-14 15:09 ` Florian Philipp
2012-08-14 15:33 ` Florian Philipp
2012-08-16 16:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-14 17:45 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-13 20:13 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-13 20:41 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-08-14 2:07 ` Adam Carter
2012-08-14 16:36 ` Helmut Jarausch
2012-08-14 17:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-08-14 17:21 ` Jason Weisberger
2012-08-14 17:42 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-08-14 17:50 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-14 19:55 ` Alecks Gates
2012-08-14 20:17 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-14 20:57 ` Alecks Gates
2012-08-14 17:48 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-14 17:42 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-08-14 19:39 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-15 7:31 ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-08-15 8:13 ` Bill Kenworthy
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