Hi

I would really look into QoS instead. 

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> On 17 Jun 2019, at 19.33, Alex Chekholko <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I think the next thing to double-check is when the maxMBpS change takes 
> effect.  You may need to restart the nsds.  Otherwise I think your plan is 
> sound.
> 
> Regards,
> Alex
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:24 AM Christopher Black <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Our network team sometimes needs to take down sections of our network for 
>> maintenance. Our systems have dual paths thru pairs of switches, but often 
>> the maintenance will take down one of the two paths leaving all our nsd 
>> servers with half bandwidth.
>> 
>> Some of our systems are transmitting at a higher rate than can be handled by 
>> half network (2x40Gb hosts with tx of 50Gb+).
>> 
>> What can we do to gracefully handle network maintenance reducing bandwidth 
>> in half?
>> 
>> Should we set maxMBpS for affected nodes to a lower value? (default on our 
>> ess appears to be maxMBpS = 30000, would I reduce this to ~4000 for 32Gbps?)
>> 
>> Any other ideas or comments?
>> 
>> Our hope is that metadata operations are not affected much and users just 
>> see jobs and processes read or write at a slower rate.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Chris
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