Chapter 22. Flusher


The filestore flusher forces data from large writes to be written out using sync file range before the sync in order to (hopefully) reduce the cost of the eventual sync. In practice, disabling filestore flusher seems to improve performance in some cases.

filestore_flusher

Description
Enables the filestore flusher.
Type
Boolean
Required
No
Default
false

filestore_flusher_max_fds

Description
Sets the maximum number of file descriptors for the flusher.
Type
Integer
Required
No
Default
512

filestore_sync_flush

Description
Enables the synchronization flusher.
Type
Boolean
Required
No
Default
false

filestore_fsync_flushes_journal_data

Description
Flush journal data during filesystem synchronization.
Type
Boolean
Required
No
Default
false
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