[Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 configuration/performance questions...

[Peter W. Morreale]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:20 -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Peter W. Morreale wrote:
> 
> > 2) assume we create the fs instance with all 32 slots.  I would assume
> > that HB is impacted since it would scan all 32 slots each iteration, is
> > that correct?
> 
> No. heartbeat i/o depends on the number of nodes configured in
> cluster.conf. Take the largest node number configured - 1 and
> multiply with 512 bytes. That's the amount read every 2 secs.
> Either way, that size is negligible.

So, regardless of the blocksize the file system was configured with, HB
only looks at a sector per node, is that right?

Thanks for the quick response.

Best,
-PWM