Mover makes everything unusably slow while running

[domidomi]

I have a 1 TB cache drive which tends to fill up often. While the Mover is running, all my Docker services become unusably slow. Is this common for everyone else? Is there any way to customize the Mover so that it doesn't choke all other services?

 

I don't imagine running the Mover without affecting the rest of the system at all. I just want it to be less greedy about disk bandwidth so that other services are at least usable.

 

Any ideas? Many thanks!

[Kilrah]

Are those dockers accessing files on the array? If not there should not be any signifcant impact.

 

You'd typically schedule the mover to run in the middle of the night when there won't be any significant usage anyway.

Edited March 9, 2023 by Kilrah

[domidomi]

6 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Are those dockers accessing files on the array? If not there should not be any signifcant impact.

 

You'd typically schedule the mover to run in the middle of the night when there won't be any significant usage anyway.

Yes, many Docker containers are indeed accessing files on the array. I'm currently scheduling the Mover to run at a time when the services are unlikely to be significantly used, but I'm still searching for a solution which is less "greedy" for disk bandwidth, if at all possible.