On 02/20/2015 05:15 PM, Bill Broadley wrote:
I read through the beowulf archives for mentions of NFS + IB. I found nothing
newer than 2012.
What are peoples current experience with NFS + IB? I'm looking at the options
for smaller clusters with /home on NFS. I'll leave distributed filesystems for
a separate discussion.
The two leading options seem to be IPoIB and RDMA. Any comments on stability
and performance assuming a fairly recent kernel like 3.13 or newer?
I'm afraid I don't have anything on newer kernels, so I'd love to hear
peoples experiences. But with EL6.4 I had terrible stability issues
with NFSoRDMA. Starting nfs service in particular would lock up the
machine hard. So I have been sticking with IPoIB without much trouble.
Have not spent much time tuning/benchmarking.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031212 is an unfortunately
private (kernel issues are automatically private now) bug about the nfs
restart issue. But I never got any response on it anyway.
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