On Mar 5, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Ales Justin <ales.jus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But yeah, the moment I start chunking, I would still like to have the grouped > -- same node. > Or that doesn't make sense? > (hence having this discussion ;-) > > -Ales > > On 05 Mar 2014, at 16:01, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@infinispan.org> wrote: > >> On 5 March 2014 14:54, Ales Justin <ales.jus...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Why do you chunk at all if you want them stored together? >>> >>> I only use chunking if I can't avoid it, to spread large files. >>> >>> That's what's GridFS all about -- store very large files. >>> Hence chunking. >>> >>> So you're saying we should know the limit of what we can store on 1 node, >>> if bigger, spread, therefore no grouping. >> >> Yes, but a very conservative approximation would be good enough: you >> don't need hardware specifications to figure out a reasonable >> threshold. >> If I had to make up a number out of thin air, I'd pick something >> around 10MB: any file below that threshold would not use chunking and >> be nicely stored together to be retrieved efficiently; beyond that >> start distributing. I don't think that if they are collocated, fetching all the segments to another node brings better performance. Might be quite the opposite actually, as having the segments distributed allows fetching them in parallel. >> (this figure could probably use some testing if you're looking into >> performance) >> >> Sanne >> >>> >>> -Ales >>> >>> On 5 Mar 2014 11:22, "Ales Justin" <ales.jus...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Just having a discussion with Bela about this. >>>> >>>> I guess having "grouping" on GridFS' content would make sense. >>>> e.g. put all chunks on the same node >>>> >>>> Is this doable? >>>> Afaiu, we would need to have some sort of "similarity" function for >>>> content's metadata? >>>> >>>> -Ales >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> infinispan-dev mailing list >>>> infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org >>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> infinispan-dev mailing list >>> infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> infinispan-dev mailing list >>> infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> infinispan-dev mailing list >> infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev Cheers, -- Mircea Markus Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org) _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
