On Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Stefan Priebe wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> what is the purpose or idea behind this setting?
>  
Couple different things:
1) The OSDs can't accept writes which won't fit inside their journal, and if 
you have a small journal you could conceivably attempt to write something which 
wouldn't fit. This doesn't happen so much any more, but it did sometimes in the 
past.
1b) The MDS uses this setting to limit the size of some of its operations 
(mostly directory updates), which can (rarely) grow quite large.
2) The OSDs don't have any other strict limits on how large an op you send 
around, but performance becomes a problem if they grow too large. This setting 
caps the operation size it allows.

It defaults to 90MB and you can change it if you want to, but I'm not sure why 
you would…
-Greg

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