Re: [lustre-discuss] a question about max_create_count

2019-06-20 Thread Andreas Dilger
Kurt, To clarify a bit further, the max_create_count is the maximum number of objects that the MDS might precreate in a batch on an OST if it has a high create rate. They are not necessarily _simultaneous_ creates. In the recent IO-500 run, Cambridge sustained 1.78M creates/sec for 5 minutes

Re: [lustre-discuss] a question about max_create_count

2019-06-20 Thread Degremont, Aurelien
Hello Kurt, max_create_count is a tunable per OST. It controls how many object pre-creations could be done on each OST, by the MDT. If you set this to 0 for one OST, no additional object will be allocated there and no new file will have file stripes on it. With the appropriate hardware,