I'll take a look at that.

-Akara

Shanti Subramanyam wrote:
That sounds reasonable. You mention users but not events. How will the event files be handled ? Also as we keep adding files, we need to ensure that the ratios of files in dirs is maintained.

Shanti

Akara Sucharitakul wrote:
100 is kind of low. That will mean 10,000 directories for 1 million loaded users. I don't like it when we see 10,000 entries on ls. Gets unwieldy again.

I'd limit to 1,000. Seems reasonable for directories to handle. But the limit here is really a million users with two level directories. If we increase the stored:concurrent user ratio to 100:1, we'll be stuck at 10,000 concurrent users. I think Olio has the potential to scale much higher.

Coming down, I really think we should do a 3 layer directory (or 2 layer subdirectory). With a limit of 1000 files/users per directory you can actually go up to 10^9 stored users and 10^7 concurrent users - and even if we at some point decide the user ratio to be 1000:1, we are still up to 10^6 concurrent users. That's probably as big a rig as anybody will want to test.

In summary, I'd go for 2 layer subdirectory limiting each directory to have no more than 1000 entries.

-Akara

Shanti Subramanyam wrote:
Currently, the filestore is a single flat layer with all files both pre-loaded and those that are generated during a run going into the same directory. As the number of users are scaled, this directory is unwieldy - I'm sure some of you may have tried to do a 'ls /filestore' and then cursed yourself for doing it !

How about using one directory for every 100 users or so ? Something similar for events ? Not sure how we'll deal with the added events and files during a run though.

Thoughts ?

Shanti


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