Yes, this can be set at startup time to limit the number of started threads. There is a patch I wrote to also reduce the number of running treads but it wasn't landed yet.
Cheers, Andreas On 2011-02-24, at 14:04, "Mervini, Joseph A" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm inclined to agree. So apparently the only time that modifying the runtime > max values has a benefit is while the threads_started is low? > > Joe > ==== > > Joe Mervini > Sandia National Laboratories > High Performance Computing > 505.844.6770 > [email protected] > > > > On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Kevin Van Maren wrote: > >> However, I don't think you can decrease the number of running threads. >> See https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22417 (and also >> https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22516 ) >> >> Kevin >> >> >> Mervini, Joseph A wrote: >>> Cool! Thank you Johann. >>> ==== >>> >>> Joe Mervini >>> Sandia National Laboratories >>> High Performance Computing >>> 505.844.6770 >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Johann Lombardi wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:48:32AM -0700, Mervini, Joseph A wrote: >>>> >>>>> Quick question: Has runtime modification of the number of OST threads >>>>> been implemented in Lustre-1.8.3? >>>>> >>>> Yes, see bugzilla ticket 18688. It was landed in 1.8.1. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Johann >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Johann Lombardi >>>> Whamcloud, Inc. >>>> www.whamcloud.com >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
