The default value for max_file_size is "16#8000000". Is this hexadecimal format?
Isn't this 128MB? The documentation says that this is 2GB but I can't reproduce this value converting this to decimal... Thanks, --- Fábio Sato 2012/4/17 Fábio Sato <[email protected]> > Thanks Sean! > > I'll change the max_file_size and monitor disk usage. > > I hope that does the trick! > --- > Fábio Sato > > 2012/4/17 Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> > >> Fabio, >> >> If you are using Bitcask (the default storage engine), it won't compact >> its data files until they reach the 2GB default max file size. Since your >> disk space is constrained, I suggest you tune the max_file_size down >> (128-256MB should be sufficient for your purposes) and merging >> threshold/triggers. More info about those settings can be found on this >> page: http://wiki.basho.com/Bitcask.html#Disk-Usage-and-Merging-Settings >> >> Hope that helps! >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Fábio Sato <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I've started using Riak as a data store for images and documents and I'm >>> having trouble understanding its disk usage behaviour. >>> >>> We developed a web system and unfortunately it went into production >>> without the appropriate hardware infrastructure, and we are currently >>> running only one instance of Riak right now (I know this is dead wrong but >>> I'm waiting for more hardware). >>> >>> Currently we have like 100 keys and update their content every 5 >>> minutes. Every image has approximately 300kB so I would expect a disk usage >>> around 300MB-1GB and also that riak would keep it constant. But every 2 >>> weeks we get a full filesystem (10GB) and have to restart Riak (or >>> temporally add another instance) to make it release space. >>> >>> To me it seems like it is maintaining the previous values for each key >>> like a versioning system, but can't confirm that based on what I've read on >>> the documentation. >>> >>> Could someone give me a hint why the disk space grows even if I'm not >>> adding no new keys? >>> >>> Any feedback would be appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> -- >>> Fábio Sato >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> riak-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> >> Software Engineer >> Basho Technologies, Inc. >> http://basho.com/ >> >> > > > -- > Fábio Sato > -- Fábio Sato
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