Ah, ok.  So now it's even more different as we have gone back to 7 x 300GB raw 
device drives instead of that one 1.7TB RAID device.
 
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Bruce Z. Lysik <[email protected]>


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> From: Leif Hedstrom <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected] 
>Cc: John Plevyak <[email protected]>; Bruce Lysik <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8:04 AM
>Subject: Re: selectively clear device disk cache?
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>On 5/2/12 9:00 AM, John Plevyak wrote:
>> 
>> Means that you have too few directory entries for that disk.   Odd, unless 
>> you are caching very small objects or have set the configuration for average 
>> object size too high.
>Right, this might be my fault :). They have mostly large files, with 1.7TB of 
>disk, and the default of 8KB average size creates way too many directory 
>entries (wasting memory, disk I/O and longer startup times). They should 
>estimate how many objects they need, salt it appropriately, and tune the 
>config accordingly.
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>-- Leif
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