Yes, your number is 128MB. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Fábio Sato <[email protected]> wrote:
> The default value for max_file_size is "16#8000000". Is this hexadecimal > format? > > Isn't this 128MB? The documentation says that this is 2GB but I can't > reproduce this value converting this to decimal... > > Thanks, > --- > Fábio Sato > > > 2012/4/17 Fábio Sato <[email protected]> > >> Thanks Sean! >> >> I'll change the max_file_size and monitor disk usage. >> >> I hope that does the trick! >> --- >> Fábio Sato >> >> 2012/4/17 Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> >> >>> Fabio, >>> >>> If you are using Bitcask (the default storage engine), it won't compact >>> its data files until they reach the 2GB default max file size. Since your >>> disk space is constrained, I suggest you tune the max_file_size down >>> (128-256MB should be sufficient for your purposes) and merging >>> threshold/triggers. More info about those settings can be found on this >>> page: http://wiki.basho.com/Bitcask.html#Disk-Usage-and-Merging-Settings >>> >>> Hope that helps! >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Fábio Sato <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> I've started using Riak as a data store for images and documents and >>>> I'm having trouble understanding its disk usage behaviour. >>>> >>>> We developed a web system and unfortunately it went into production >>>> without the appropriate hardware infrastructure, and we are currently >>>> running only one instance of Riak right now (I know this is dead wrong but >>>> I'm waiting for more hardware). >>>> >>>> Currently we have like 100 keys and update their content every 5 >>>> minutes. Every image has approximately 300kB so I would expect a disk usage >>>> around 300MB-1GB and also that riak would keep it constant. But every 2 >>>> weeks we get a full filesystem (10GB) and have to restart Riak (or >>>> temporally add another instance) to make it release space. >>>> >>>> To me it seems like it is maintaining the previous values for each key >>>> like a versioning system, but can't confirm that based on what I've read on >>>> the documentation. >>>> >>>> Could someone give me a hint why the disk space grows even if I'm not >>>> adding no new keys? >>>> >>>> Any feedback would be appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> -- >>>> Fábio Sato >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> riak-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> >>> Software Engineer >>> Basho Technologies, Inc. >>> http://basho.com/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Fábio Sato >> > > > > -- > Fábio Sato > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > -- Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> Software Engineer Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/
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