Title: Re: NFS Performance (was Re: [Beowulf] GPFS on Linux (x86))

I am puzzled by an sles9sp3 (2.6.9 kernel) nfs server that serves rhel3 (2.4.21 kernel) compute nodes. For some reason a lot of times the mounts fail (with default as well as modified parameters). The symptom is mount: rpc timeout. The server logs all authentification requests as successful.  The switch is an oversubscribed hp 4108gl.

Google turned up nothing useful.

Any ideas?

Michael

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Brent Franks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Fri Sep 15 07:47:11 2006
To:     Chris Samuel
Cc:     [email protected]
Subject:        Re: NFS Performance (was Re: [Beowulf] GPFS on Linux (x86))

On 9/15/06, Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wild guess - NFS servers are running RHEL and using ext3 ?

Exactly.

> We used to have that problem with the 2 NFS servers for our 90 node cluster
> till we dumped RHEL,  switched to Fedora and XFS and all our horrible NFS
> problems went away.

Nice, any sort of comparison data in terms of differences in
throughput achieved?

Additionally, are you writing your journal to a different partition?

Thanks,

- Brent
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