Re: [Moosefs-users] Master node memory limitation

[Laurent W. <lw...@hy...>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:43:36 +0000
Rustam Aliyev <ru...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
Hi,
> 
> I'm new to MooseFS and was wondering what will happen if Master server will
> not have enough RAM to keep all metadata in memory?
Machine will start to swap, and OOM killer will hit if ram+swap is not
enough. I guess you understand the consequences ;)
> Does it mean that whole FS will became unavailable if I hit maximum RAM?
> Is there any way to limit RAM usage and load only recent files to memory?
It's not possible (yet ?). AFAIK this is not on roadmap. Devs may
accept such a patch.
HTH,
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