"Jason A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I tried experimenting with ramfs, since it is much easier to setup > than a ramdisk, but I had a few problems with it, that I suspect might > be bugs in the Linux kernel. Since now the databases are stored only in > ... > > Then I finally settled on a ramdisk, although it takes a little more > effort to setup and use. The performance appears to be about the same > as ramfs, without the lockups and 50% overhead, which really helps to > alleviate the disk I/O load on the gmetad node.
Our installation is somewhat smaller (~70 Nodes), but I also had performance problems using gmetad. I now use tmpfs without any problems. Really easy to set up. <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/linux-2.4/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> Andreas -- Andreas Hirczy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fubphpc.tu-graz.ac.at/~ahi/ Technische Universität Graz Telefon: +43 / 316 / 873 - 81 90 Institut für Theoretische Physik Telefax: +43 / 316 / 873 - 86 78 Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz mobil: +43 / 699 / 19 14 24 60
