GPFS pagepool , maxfilestocache and maxstatcache ?

UNIX AIX
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ogGood Day

while i am planning to upgrade our GPFS from 3.2 to 3.3 i have the below questions?

based on what i can configure thr pagepool to be 16M , 32M or 64M ?

and what is the formula for maxfilestocache and maxstatcache ?

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Hi,

the default value of maxStatCache is 4 * maxFilesToCache
On system where maxFilesToCache is greatly increased it is recommended that this value be manually set to something less than 4 * maxFilesToCache

There is btw a pretty good redbook available about tuning gpfs

Regards
zxmaus

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for the maxFilesToCache based on what i will set the value .