[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 4/4] docs: add description for gc-cache-capacity tuning parameter

Christian Ebner c.ebner at proxmox.com
Thu Apr 3 14:27:32 CEST 2025


Adds a bullet point to the listed datastore tuning parameters,
describing its functionality, implications and typical values.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner at proxmox.com>
---
 docs/storage.rst | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/storage.rst b/docs/storage.rst
index 490302955..cab65ef79 100644
--- a/docs/storage.rst
+++ b/docs/storage.rst
@@ -435,9 +435,17 @@ There are some tuning related options for the datastore that are more advanced:
 
   This can be set with:
 
-.. code-block:: console
+  .. code-block:: console
+
+    # proxmox-backup-manager datastore update <storename> --tuning 'sync-level=filesystem'
 
-  # proxmox-backup-manager datastore update <storename> --tuning 'sync-level=filesystem'
+* ``gc-cache-capacity``: Datastore GC least recently used cache capacity:
+  Allows to control the cache capacity used to keep track of chunks for which
+  the access time has already been updated during phase 1 of garbage collection.
+  This avoids multiple updates and increases GC runtime performance. The
+  capacity is set as the given value multiplied by 1024. Higher values can
+  reduce GC runtime at the cost of increase memory usage, setting the value to 0
+  disables caching.
 
 If you want to set multiple tuning options simultaneously, you can separate them
 with a comma, like this:
-- 
2.39.5





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