Hello Jeff, Non, this is a lustre filesystem for Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares at UNAM, we are working on the installation for Alice at DGTIC too, but this problem is with our local filesystem.
The OST is connected using a LSI-SAS controller, we have 8 OSTs on the same server, there are nodes that loose connection with all the OSTs that belong to this server but the problem is not related with the OST-OSS communication, since I can access this OST and read files stored there from other lustre clients. The problem is a deadlock condition in which the OSS and some clients refuse connections from each other as I can see from dmesg: in the client LustreError: 11-0: lustre-OST000a-osc-ffff8801bc548000: Communicating with 10.2.2.3@o2ib, operation ost_connect failed with -16. in the server Lustre: lustre-OST000a: Client 0afb2e4c-d870-47ef-c16f-4d2bce6dabf9 (at 10.2.64.4@o2ib) reconnecting Lustre: lustre-OST000a: Client 0afb2e4c-d870-47ef-c16f-4d2bce6dabf9 (at 10.2.64.4@o2ib) refused reconnection, still busy with 9 active RPCs this only happen with clients that are reading a lot of small files (~100MB each) in the same OST. thank you, Eduardo 2013/10/17 Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> > Hola Eduardo, > > How are the OSTs connected to the OSS (SAS, FC, Infiniband SRP)? > Are there any non-Lustre errors in the dmesg output of the OSS? > Block devices error on the OSS (/dev/sd?)? > > If you are losing [scsi,sas,fc,srp] connectivity you may see this sort > of thing. If the OSTs are connected to the OSS node via IB SRP and your > IB fabric gets busy or you have subnet manager issues you might see a > condition like this. > > Is this the AliceFS at DGTIC? > > --Jeff > > > > On 10/17/13 3:52 PM, Eduardo Murrieta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > this is my first post on this list, I hope someone can give me some > > advise on how to resolve the following issue. > > > > I'm using the lustre release 2.4.0 RC2 compiled from whamcloud > > sources, this is an upgrade from lustre 2.2.22 from same sources. > > > > The situation is: > > > > There are several clients reading files that belongs mostly to the > > same OST, afther a period of time the clients starts loosing contact > > with this OST and processes stops due to this fault, here is the state > > for such OST on one client: > > > > client# lfs check servers > > ... > > ... > > lustre-OST000a-osc-ffff8801bc548000: check error: Resource temporarily > > unavailable > > ... > > ... > > > > checking dmesg on client and OSS server we have: > > > > client# dmesg > > LustreError: 11-0: lustre-OST000a-osc-ffff8801bc548000: Communicating > > with 10.2.2.3@o2ib, operation ost_connect failed with -16. > > LustreError: Skipped 24 previous similar messages > > > > OSS-server# dmesg > > .... > > Lustre: lustre-OST000a: Client 0afb2e4c-d870-47ef-c16f-4d2bce6dabf9 > > (at 10.2.64.4@o2ib) reconnecting > > Lustre: lustre-OST000a: Client 0afb2e4c-d870-47ef-c16f-4d2bce6dabf9 > > (at 10.2.64.4@o2ib) refused reconnection, still busy with 9 active RPCs > > .... > > > > At this moment I can ping from client to server and vice versa, but > > some time this call also hangs on server and client. > > > > client# # lctl ping OSS-server@o2ib > > 12345-0@lo > > 12345-OSS-server@o2ib > > > > OSS-server# lctl ping 10.2.64.4@o2ib > > 12345-0@lo > > 12345-10.2.64.4@o2ib > > > > This situation happens very frequently and specially with jobs that > > process a lot of files in an average size of 100MB. > > > > The only solution that I find to reestablish the communication > > between the server and the client is restarting both machines. > > > > I hope some have an idea what is the reason for the problem and how > > can I reset the communication with the clients without restarting the > > machines. > > > > thank you, > > > > Eduardo > > UNAM@Mexico > > > > -- > > Eduardo Murrieta > > Unidad de Cómputo > > Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM > > Ph. +52-55-5622-4739 ext. 5103 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Lustre-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > > > -- > ------------------------------ > Jeff Johnson > Co-Founder > Aeon Computing > > [email protected] > www.aeoncomputing.com > t: 858-412-3810 x1001 f: 858-412-3845 > m: 619-204-9061 > > 4170 Morena Boulevard, Suite D - San Diego, CA 92117 > > High-performance Computing / Lustre Filesystems / Scale-out Storage > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > -- Eduardo Murrieta Unidad de Cómputo Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM Ph. +52-55-5622-4739 ext. 5103
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