[gpfsug-discuss] Vmtouch on GPFS is supported?

Uwe Falke uwe.falke at kit.edu
Tue Aug 15 07:25:15 BST 2023


Hi, Amjad,

vmtouch uses the OS filesystem caches, but GPFS uses its own caching 
(pagepool). I suppose, vmtouch won't help here.

Uwe

On 14.08.23 17:45, Amjad Syed wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are using GPFS to store a particular software GUI product that is 
> accessed over VPN and nomachine software.
>
> It takes more then 1 min to load this software. We were planning to 
> use vmtouch daemon to see if it can reduce loading time of this software/
> https://github.com/hoytech/vmtouch
> Just wanted to check if any one used this and got some thoughts
>
> Amjad
>
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