[Pvfs2-developers] increasing PVFS_REQ_LIMIT_CONFIG_FILE_BYTES

[Robert Latham]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Tony Kew wrote:
> Warning: Generated config file:  
> /scratch/1188301.bono.ccr.buffalo.edu/pvfs2-fs.conf.tmp
> has size: 73271, which is larger than the current PVFS request: 65536
> Increase the value of PVFS_REQ_LIMIT_CONFIG_FILE_BYTES in  
> src/proto/pvfs2-req-proto.h
> -rw-r--r--  1 tonykew ccrstaff 73271 Jan 28 14:19  
> /scratch/1188301.bono.ccr.buffalo.edu/pvfs2-fs.conf.tmp
> c14n32$

I'm so very happy that Sam added that check.  I can tell you from
experience this is one problem that can be a pain to track down
otherwise.

> A config file for the whole cluster is 149693 characters in size.
>
> Am I likely to run into problems if I, change  
> PVFS_REQ_LIMIT_CONFIG_FILE_BYTES
> to 262144 (for example)?

Nope, no problems at all.  

==rob

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Rob Latham
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