James:

I took a quick look at your config file and you need to have different
port numbers for each server on the same physical machine and separate
storage locations for each as well.  PVFS does not provide consistency
between two servers accessing the same data locations.

Becky
-- 
Becky Ligon
PVFS Developer
Clemson University
864-656-3865

> Interesting... My knowledge of ip routing is spotty at best. I was under
> the
> impression that the network would view the second ethernet adapter as a
> completely separate computer. I will try the bonding configuration.
> Thanks!
>
> -James
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Emmanuel Florac
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Le Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:47:35 -0700
>> James Gao <[email protected]> écrivait:
>>
>> > My ultimate goal is to be able to use the full 4 gbps of bandwidth
>> > connected to the file servers.
>> > Any ideas? Thanks for you time!
>>
>> I suppose you set up your 2 different interfaces on each node in the
>> same ip network (like 10.0.1.1 and 10.0.1.2). Unfortunately, the way ip
>> routing works mean that all traffic will go through the first one.
>>
>> You should use bonding instead. Aggregate the two interfaces using
>> balance-rr or balance-alb, and you'll have a virtual 2 Gb interface
>> instead of 2 1 Gb, that should work much better.
>>
>> regards,
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Emmanuel Florac     |   Direction technique
>>                    |   Intellique
>>                    |   <[email protected]>
>>                    |   +33 1 78 94 84 02
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Pvfs2-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
>

_______________________________________________
Pvfs2-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users

Reply via email to