[pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 4/4] docs: add description for gc-cache-capacity tuning parameter
Christian Ebner
c.ebner at proxmox.com
Fri Apr 4 15:07:13 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>
---
changes since version 1:
- drop mentions of multiples of 1024, as raw values are used now
docs/storage.rst | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/storage.rst b/docs/storage.rst
index 490302955..c69df8b26 100644
--- a/docs/storage.rst
+++ b/docs/storage.rst
@@ -435,9 +435,16 @@ 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. 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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