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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I finally upgraded to sheepdog 0.8 and qemu 1.7, which should have a better cache behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Basically I am doing the same as with my previous setup. I import 5 images at the same time into sheepdog. I have make sure that there is enough space on disk, so that all 5 images would fit into the cache without running out of diskspace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am running a command like “qemu-img convert -p -t writeback vm.vhd sheepdog:vm-61036-disk-1”, doing this with 5 different images in parallel (using & on the shell). Everything gets imported, but most of the data remains in the cache and will not be distributed to the other nodes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>#dog vdi cache info<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Name Tag Total Dirty Clean<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>vm-61025-disk-1 15 GB 15 GB 36 MB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>vm-61026-disk-1 20 GB 20 GB 40 MB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>vm-61037-disk-1 20 GB 0.0 MB 20 GB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>vm-61035-disk-1 18 GB 18 GB 36 MB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>vm-61036-disk-1 20 GB 20 GB 40 MB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cache size 100 GB, used 93 GB, non-directio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regardless how long I wait, that cache never gets flushed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sheep is started with:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>/usr/sbin/sheep --pidfile /var/run/sheep.pid --nosync /var/lib/sheepdog/ /var/lib/sheepdog//disc1/data,/var/lib/sheepdog//disc2/data -w dir=/var/lib/sheepdog//cache size=100G<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regards Gerald<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>P.S. By the way it would be nice to make the Name column wider, so there is enough space to display names that not only consist of a few characters <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>