From 06a760e1392c540318058bd30ce644b20015caaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stan Hu Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 09:51:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about EFS and GitLab log files [ci skip] --- doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md b/doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md index bd6b7327aed..90a2e9298bf 100644 --- a/doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md +++ b/doc/administration/high_availability/nfs.md @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ GitLab does not recommend using EFS with GitLab. many small files are written in a serialized manner are not well-suited for EFS. EBS with an NFS server on top will perform much better. +In addition, avoid storing GitLab log files (e.g. those in `/var/log/gitlab`) +because this will also affect performance. We recommend that the log files be +stored on a local volume. + For more details on another person's experience with EFS, see [Amazon's Elastic File System: Burst Credits](https://www.rawkode.io/2017/04/amazons-elastic-file-system-burst-credits/)