# My node crawls when I have Elasticsearch store its data on GPFS

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-node-crawls-when-i-have-elasticsearch-store-its-data-on-gpfs/9432>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 21, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-node-crawls-when-i-have-elasticsearch-store-its-data-on-gpfs/9432 "2012-10-21T01:25:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![HydraDB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@HydraDB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HydraDB)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-node-crawls-when-i-have-elasticsearch-store-its-data-on-gpfs/9432/1 "2012-10-21T01:25:49Z")

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Hello everyone,

I have been struggling with setting up es while having it's data stored on  
GPFS. Hopefully, someone can give me some ideas that may rectify the  
problem.

The only real setting change that I made was to have  
-Des.path.data=/mygpfs/data

When I start es the node crawls and simple file system operations like 'ls'  
take minutes to respond. As an experiment, I tried using the local  
filesystem /tmp  
and the performance was excellent.

I am using

- elasticsearch-0.19.10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS release 6.2 (Final)

Any ideas would greatly be appreciated. Additionally, if anyone else is  
using GPFS, can you tell me which driver set you are using?

Thank you in advance,  
cw

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**Author:** ![es1024](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f9ae1b/32.png) [@es1024](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/es1024)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-node-crawls-when-i-have-elasticsearch-store-its-data-on-gpfs/9432/2 "2016-03-02T20:18:28Z")

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Hello,  
Have you had any luck with GPFS? We have installed it and seeing similar bottle necks and lots of shard relocations?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-node-crawls-when-i-have-elasticsearch-store-its-data-on-gpfs/9432/3 "2017-07-05T23:11:54Z")

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