On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:53:25PM +0100, Johann Lombardi wrote: >On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Robin Humble wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm seeing what can only be described as dismal striped write >> performance from lustre 1.6.3 clients :-/ >> 1.6.2 and 1.6.1 clients are fine. 1.6.4rc3 clients (from cvs a couple >> of days ago) are also terrible. >> >> the below shows that the OS (centos4.5/5) or fabric (gigE/IB) or lustre >> version on the servers doesn't matter - the problem is with the 1.6.3 >> and 1.6.4rc3 client kernels with striped writes (although un-striped >> writes are a tad slower too). >> >> with 1M lustre stripes: >> client client dd write speed (MB/s) >> OS kernel a) b) c) d) >> 1.6.2: >> centos4.5 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL_lustre.1.6.2smp 202 270 118 117 >> centos5 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5_lustre.1.6.2rjh 166 190 117 119 >> 1.6.3+: >> centos4.5 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre.1.6.3smp 32 9 30 9 >> centos5 2.6.18-53.el5-lustre1.6.4rc3rjh 36 10 27 10 >> ^^^^ ^^^^ >> yes, that is really 9MB/s. sigh > >Could you please try to disable checksums? >On the client side: >for file in /proc/fs/lustre/osc/*/checksums; do echo 0 > $file; done
done. no change. cheers, robin _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
