[Users] Fragmentation on VZ7

Gena Makhomed gmm at csdoc.com
Tue Nov 1 12:24:01 PDT 2016


On 03.10.2016 18:26, Chris James wrote:

> I'm running a graphing container on VZ7. Specifically it's running
> carbon-cache with metrics coming in every minute for a total of 46G of
> stats spread out over 193349 files. This disk space usage of this
> containers ploop container is regularly blowing up.
>
> Today, I ran the following command:
>
> prl_disk_tool compact --hdd /vz/private/101/root.hdd
>
> This freed up 172GB of disk space.
>
> How do I prevent this kind of fragmentation from building up? Am I
> expected to compact the ploop images on a regular basis?

# man pcompact

# man pcompact.conf

# cat /etc/cron.d/pcompact

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Best regards,
  Gena


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