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3 DR Series Appliance Cleaner Best Practices
Table of contents
Revisions ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Intended audience ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4
1 Deduplication and cleaning ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 How to determine if the cleaner is keeping up .................................................................................................................... 7
2.1.1 Using the stats --cleaner command ........................................................................................................................... 7
2.1.2 Understanding cleaner statistics .................................................................................................................................. 8
3 Cleaner adjustments & best practices ................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Adjusting the cleaner runtime and schedule ............................................................................................................. 9
3.1.1 Cleaner considerations ................................................................................................................................................. 11
3.1.2 Scenario 1: Cleaner analysis and adjustments .......................................................................................................... 11
A Additional cleaner commands .............................................................................................................................................. 13
A.1 Create a cleaner schedule ........................................................................................................................................... 13
A.2 Examine the cleaner ..................................................................................................................................................... 13
A.3 Modify the cleaner schedule ....................................................................................................................................... 13
A.4 Running the cleaner manually .................................................................................................................................... 14
B How to run the cleaner .......................................................................................................................................................... 16
C Estimating cleaning work currently in progress ................................................................................................................. 17
D If the cleaner runs behind ...................................................................................................................................................... 19
E Cleaner monitoring and adjustment flow chart ................................................................................................................. 24