FYI LU-14699 in 2.15 implements a garbage collection for changelog which
should address this case.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 10:22 AM Scott Nolin via robinhood-support <
robinhood-support@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> We have not looked at changelog performance impact (for us, likely does
> not matter), but we do have to monitor the changelog size as we've had
> issues where if there is something (typically a bad script) causing enough
> metadata activity and robinhood can't keep up and they can grow too large.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rémi Palancher <r...@rackslab.io>
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2023 3:25 AM
> To: robinhood-support@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [robinhood-support] Feedback on RobinHood
>
> Hi RobinHood developpers and users,
>
> I am studying with EDF the opportunity to deploy RobinHood on their HPC
> clusters running Lustre 2.12.
>
> We are particularly interested on any feedback about:
>
> - The impact on filesystem performances of the activation of Lustre
> changelog with default event mask [0]? Does anyone has numbers to share?
>
> - The current state of Lustre PFL support? The last "RobinHood Project
> Update" slides available in the wiki from 2017 [1] say « no PFL support for
> now » but commit in 2019 mentions a « workaround to support PFL » [2]. I
> must admit I am not an experienced Lustre expert and I don't fully
> understand the comment « It only stores and handles the striping
> information of the last initialized component of a layout, which is likely
> the one suited for the current file size. » What are the caveats and the
> limits of the current workaround?
>
> - The roadmap for v4? I saw these slides from LAD'22 that mentions tests
> in 2023. Do you plan any release this year?
>
> Thank you in advance for any kind of answer!
>
> Best regards,
>
> [0]
> https://github.com/cea-hpc/robinhood/blob/master/scripts/rbh-config#L298
> [1]
> https://robinhood.sourceforge.net/rug17/RUG17-ThomasLeibovici-ProjectUpdate.pdf
> [2]
> https://github.com/cea-hpc/robinhood/commit/7ba46d66970d476d25e3890848592c0c5979b666
> [3]
> https://www.eofs.eu/_media/events/lad22/1.7-rbh4_update_sebastiengougeaud.pdf
>
> --
> Rémi Palancher
> Rackslab: Open Source Solutions for HPC Operations https://rackslab.io
>
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