From: Graeme Seaton <lists@graemes.com>
To: Proxmox Backup Server development discussion
<pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs-devel] Verify, Prune & GC sequence
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:31:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9bfbe53-a3e3-2f24-2e67-213ef1548893@graemes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3249ddb-e2a6-bf33-450f-ba8109c6dc82@proxmox.com>
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the reply - didn't really want stay up to midnight to check
;-) At the moment, scheduling only allows daily (which is invoked at
00:00). If (when?) I can specify custom times then I'll probably use
the sequence you described.
Regards,
Graeme
On 30/10/2020 11:09, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 30.10.20 10:31, Graeme Seaton wrote:
>> If I have verify, prune & GC all set to run daily do the jobs run concurrently or in sequence?
> Well, you could just try out ;-)
>
> But yes, they can run in parallel.
>
> Since PBS allows multiple potentially interfering operations at the same time (e.g., garbage collect,
> prune, multiple backup creations (only in separate groups), forget, ...), these need to lock against
> each other in certain scenarios. There is no overarching global lock though, instead always the finest
> grained lock possible is used, because running these operations concurrently is treated as a feature
> on its own.
>
> Still, while we handle locking fine grained an admin could try to optimize the order of scheduling
> such things.
>
> 1. Prune, to increase the chance that GC can sweep more data and verify has less to look at.
> This is rather quick, so one could schedule the next probably half an hour afterwards and
> be confident it finishes before 2.
>
> 2. GC, as chunks are deleted, which may make verify also faster as it can make the underlying
> FS faster - but that's rather theory.
>
> 3. Verify
>
> I think the order of 2. and 3. is not to important, but personally, I'd always schedule pruning
> first, can only help.
>
> cheers,
> Thomas
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-30 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-30 9:31 Graeme Seaton
2020-10-30 11:09 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2020-10-30 16:31 ` Graeme Seaton [this message]
2020-10-30 17:17 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2020-10-31 6:43 ` Dietmar Maurer
2020-10-31 6:53 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2020-10-31 8:27 ` Graeme Seaton
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