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authorAchilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>2017-07-31 05:40:50 +0000
committerAchilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>2017-07-31 05:40:50 +0000
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Merge branch 'sh-aws-efs-docs' into 'master'
Add a note about EFS and GitLab log files See merge request !13180
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@@ -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/)