On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Atul Vidwansa wrote:
I wanted to know if Lustre can be used as a general purpose cluster
filesystem? Has anybody done any benchmarking of Lustre with workload
like fileserver(postmark), varmail, oltp etc?
I tried postmark, with rather bad performance:
https://mail.clusterfs.com/pipermail/lustre-discuss/2006-November/002371.html
It seems to me that Lustre is not yet ready to serve this kind of
workload, but read the whole thread to make your own opinion. :)
My intention is to use lustre for scalable web services (mostly read
only data), to serve files (postmark kind of load) and try to run Oracle
RAC instances on 4-8 Lustre clients. As far as I know Lustre has been
used mostly for HPC environment for scientific calculations, what about
standard industry applications like scalable apache, Oracle RAC etc?
Depends on workload, but I would expect better results with other cluster
filesystems such as OCFS2 or GFS. As of now, good metadata performance
with Lustre requires many clients.
Cheers,
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Jean-Marc Saffroy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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