Mike,

This is a normal size. Its about the total number of entries and not
the size of the filesystem. On our cluster, we have roughly 50 million
entries for a few filesystems we have setup on our cluster: Gluster,
FhgFS and some NFS mounts.

With MySQL, and InnoDB, the default namespace for ibdata1 is in a
shared namespace for each database. The shared namespace can grow in
size, but never decrease in size. Because of this, its recommend you
enable the following option within your MySQL setup:

   innodb_file_per_table=1

This will create a separate ibdata file for each database. While it
does not solve the shrinking problem, if you delete the database, you
can reclaim the space.

Also, if you have added custom indexes to your table, this will also
increase the size.


By the way, what version of RBH are you running? Thomas just posted
the 2.5 beta. It would be interesting to see if the file size
decreases -- I believe it will. I will be trying out the beta in the
upcoming weeks.

In addition to setting innodb_file_per_table, might be worth while to
mysqltuner.pl on your MySQL server. It will help identify areas where
items should be tuned for.

Let us know how it goes,
-Adam

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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Mike Hanby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Are there any suggestions for how large a file system we need to host
> the Robinhood database for, say, a 100TB Lustre 1.8 file system?
>
> I initially set aside 30GB, started my initial scan, and by the time
> Robinhood had scanned 32 million entries, the file system filled up. The
> primary usage is the /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 which is 28GB in size.
>
> Currently, the MySQL database is only hosting Robinhood scanning a
> single Lustre file system, so all of the data in ibdata1 belongs to it.
>
> Is this normal for that many entries? Or do I have some serious MySQL
> tuning to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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