On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Mikie <[email protected]> wrote: > Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for > certain root dir?
Swap? Definitely! > Should Tmp be local rather than on the NFS root? Yes - use tmpfs. > Any suggestions on what to keep local would help. In general, anything that doesn't need to be kept between boots. Also, keep in mind that NFS's inefficiency is in round-trips - with a big pipe, it can easily move a lot of data, but it really bogs down when asked to move many small pieces of data (e.g,. a filesystem with a lot of files, or a swapfile being accessed in a random fashion). Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
