Could you please tell me your glusterfs version and the mount command that you 
have used?? My GlusterFS version is 3.3.0, different versions may be exits 
different results.






At 2016-09-06 12:35:19, "Ravishankar N" <[email protected]> wrote:

That is strange. I tried the experiment on a volume with a million files. The 
client node's memory usage did grow, as I observed from the output of free(1)  
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/422551/ when I did a `ls`.
-Ravi
 
On 09/02/2016 07:31 AM, Keiviw wrote:

Exactly, I mounted the volume in a no-brick node(nodeB), and nodeA was the 
server. I have set different timeout, but when I excute "ls 
/mnt/glusterfs(about 3 million small files, in other words, about 3 million 
dentries)", the result was the same, memory usage in nodeB didn't change at all 
while nodeA's memory usage was changed about 4GB!


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On 09/02/2016 09:45, Ravishankar N wrote:
On 09/02/2016 05:42 AM, Keiviw wrote:

Even if I set the attribute-timeout and entry-timeout to 3600s(1h), in the 
nodeB, it didn't cache any metadata because the memory usage didn't change. So 
I was confused that why did the client not cache dentries and inodes.


If you only want to test fuse's caching, I would try mounting the volume on a 
separate machine (not on the brick node itself), disable all gluster 
performance xlators, do a find.|xargs stat on the mount 2 times in succession 
and see what free(1) reports the 1st and 2nd time. You could do this experiment 
with various attr/entry timeout values. Make sure your volume has a lot of 
small files.
-Ravi



在 2016-09-01 16:37:00,"Ravishankar N" <[email protected]> 写道:

On 09/01/2016 01:04 PM, Keiviw wrote:

Hi,
    I have found that GlusterFS client(mounted by FUSE) didn't cache metadata 
like dentries and inodes. I have installed GlusterFS 3.6.0 in nodeA and nodeB, 
and the brick1 and brick2 was in nodeA, then in nodeB, I mounted the volume to 
/mnt/glusterfs by FUSE. From my test, I excuted 'ls /mnt/glusterfs' in nodeB, 
and found that the memory didn't use at all. Here are my questions:
    1. In fuse kernel, the author set some attributes to control the time-out 
about dentry and inode, in other words, the fuse kernel supports metadata 
cache, but in my test, dentries and inodes were not cached. WHY?
    2. Were there some options in GlusterFS mounted to local to enable the 
metadata cache in fuse kernel? 


You can tweak the attribute-timeout and entry-timeout seconds while mounting 
the volume. Default is 1 second for both.  `man mount.glusterfs` lists various 
mount options.
-Ravi


 




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