Using it for a 3Tb iscsi target (disks on my server), mounted on my desktop PC - PrimoCache managing a 450Gb cache on an SSD inside the desktop; this config is great for me because the big slow storage sits out on the server, where the disk array can be used for other things too - but the SSD cache makes it fast again. No more storage worries
However, for the cases when L2 has to be flushed - and I get why - it would actually be useful to be able to point a utility at a folder or set of folders on the drive and ask it to just read all data in there, to warm and fill L2 in advance of sitting waiting for the stuff to load as-needed.
I can't seem to find a tool that would do this - anyone know of one?
Run in any tool that scan the data at least one. I see my acronis backup fill up the L2 right after a back up. I have to reboot to prevent that from happening.
I use a small command line utility called readfile.exe. You can run it as a batch with a bunch of switches. e.g. readfile *.* /s to recurse a directory and its subdirectories. The basic release had a minor bug in recursing directories that I had my programmer fix since it is open source. You can get it here:
Using it for a 3Tb iscsi target (disks on my server), mounted on my desktop PC - PrimoCache managing a 450Gb cache on an SSD inside the desktop; this config is great for me because the big slow storage sits out on the server, where the disk array can be used for other things too - but the SSD cache makes it fast again. No more storage worries
However, for the cases when L2 has to be flushed - and I get why - it would actually be useful to be able to point a utility at a folder or set of folders on the drive and ask it to just read all data in there, to warm and fill L2 in advance of sitting waiting for the stuff to load as-needed.
I can't seem to find a tool that would do this - anyone know of one?
I've requested this in the past - the developers did not reply at all, and the community was unable to find a utility to help force content into the cache.
Don't expect it will ever be done, for those reasons.
Such features that related to file operations (filter, pre-load, etc.) might be added in v4.0 version. So far I'm sorry that you have to use external commands to read files to force them into L2 cache.
How about cmd like this?
for /F "tokens=*" %%I in ('dir/b /s ^"c:\program files\*.*^"') DO type %%G >nul
Different concepts of triggering could be considered:
A. manual... obvislously
B. If PC produces the entry in eventlog on flushing the cache, it should be possible to hang a trigger on it: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/win ... ows-event/
C. Subject to verificition: If not, you might be possibly able to monitor the cache deletion using audit policy: http://sogeeky.blogspot.com/2006/07/how ... tions.html a trigger an event based on it.
C. Development needed: Primocache could be able to launch a custom command upon cache flush.
support wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2017 2:42 pm
Such features that related to file operations (filter, pre-load, etc.) might be added in v4.0 version. So far I'm sorry that you have to use external commands to read files to force them into L2 cache.
Just checking, if cache warming capabilities are still on v4 roadmap... somewhere.
