[Users] Fragmentation on VZ7

[Corrado Fiore]

Hello Chris,

one way in which you could avoid that problem is to use simfs instead of ploop for that container.  Otherwise, yes, you should compact containers on a regular basis (preferably during off peak hours...).

HTH

Best,
Corrado

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> On 3 Oct 2016, at 11:26 PM, Chris James <cjames at wiredtree.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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