[sheepdog-users] About vdi check

[Liu Yuan]

On 05/22/2013 11:27 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> Hi, I noticed that running vdi check involves high network traffic.
> Are chunks getting moved during this operation?
> I thought vdi check was going to use disks intensively but not no so
> much the network, because it only has to count/check if chunks are
> there.
> What is generating network traffic then?

vdi check is multi-threaded to boost performance in the latest master.
So it will generate more traffic than ever, but not very much, the
number of threads is proportional to number of cluster nodes. Did you
notice any situation that 'vdi check' saturate the network?

Thanks,
Yuan