Yes absolutely. You also run the risk of choking the MDS if the OSSs start freaking out and logging a lot of data. A dedicated syslog/management host is probably the best bet. Erik
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Ben Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Would't it be better to log to a non-Lustre machine? If your MDS goes down, > you lose all your logs, which would make things a bit trickier. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erik Froese > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:26 PM > To: Stuart Midgley > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] How do you monitor your lustre? > > Make sure you have enough space on the log volume if everyone is > logging to your MDS! > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Stuart Midgley <[email protected]> wrote: >> Get all your oss's to syslog to the mds and then just >> >> tail -f /var/log/messages >> >> on the mds. I notice problems way before our monitoring software notices. >> >> >> -- >> Dr Stuart Midgley >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> On 30/09/2010, at 17:46 , Andreas Davour wrote: >> >>> >>> I ask because the lmt project seem to be quite moribund. Anyone else out >>> there >>> doing something? >>> >>> /andreas >>> -- >>> Systems Engineer >>> PDC Center for High Performance Computing >>> CSC School of Computer Science and Communication >>> KTH Royal Institute of Technology >>> SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden >>> Phone: 087906658 >>> "A satellite, an earring, and a dust bunny are what made America great!" >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Lustre-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
