On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:44:54AM -0500, Aaron Knister wrote: >For whatever reason, searching my lustre mount (ls -R or find), >compiling code and other operations involving lots of small files are >painfully slow. There is no load on the filesystem other than my >various tests. I've disabled lnet debugging. Just to give you an idea >of how slow it is-- a ./configure of this particular code on a local >filesystem takes less than a minute. On lustre it's been running for >five minutes and is hardly half way through. An untar on the local >filesystem takes .9 seconds while that same untar takes 12 seconds to >our lustre mount. Any ideas for improving this?
do you have striping turned off? that makes a massive difference for metadata operations... lfs setstripe -d /some/lustre/dir/ cheers, robin _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
