Andrew: Another thought: after you get a failed make and you cannot access a file through the kernel, what happens if you reboot the kernel? Do you still get "?" in your "ls" output?
Becky On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew: > > I was able to run "make -j10" without any problems. The primary > difference is the Linux kernel version. I am running > 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64. I also had selinux disabled. > > My environment used orangefs-2.8.5, 3 servers and 1 client, all on the > same machine. My OFS configure command looked like: > > ./configure --prefix=/home/bligon/orangefs-2.8.5/install > --with-kernel=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64 --with-db=/opt/db4 > > I ran the following commands: > > cd /mnt/pvfs2 > tar -xzf torque-3.0.5.tar.gz > cd torque-3.0.5 > ./configure > make -j10 > > To narrow down the problem, could you please configure your OFS > installation as I did with mine? The with-db option is only needed if your > installation of Berkeley DB is not in the standard location. BTW, which > version of BDB are you using? I am running 4.8.30. --prefix isn't > required either. If you're not running 4.8.30 or later, you need to be. > > Thanks, > Becky > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Andrew: >> >> Thanks for answering my questions. Just trying to get a handle on the >> situation. >> >> The mmap readahead cache is noted as experimental. Since you were >> getting error messages from it, I assume that there is a bug in it >> somewhere, so you probably shouldn't use it. >> >> I'll continue looking at your issues today. The first thing that I am >> going to do is download the tar ball and run parallel make in my >> environment and see what happens. >> >> Becky >> >> >> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Andrew Savchenko <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 16 May 2012 08:26:55 +0400 Andrew Savchenko wrote: >>> > On Tue, 15 May 2012 14:45:13 -0400 Becky Ligon wrote: >>> > > When you configured OrangeFS, did you enable the readahead cache ( >>> > > --enable-mmap-racache )? >>> > >>> > Yes, mmap-racache is enabled. I'll try to disable it and see how >>> > tests are going. >>> >>> I recompiled orangefs with --disable-mmap-racache (other options were >>> not changed), reinstalled and restarted all servers and clients. >>> Problem is still here, fails on random files as before, but no opcode >>> messages in client.log, no messages at all. >>> >>> As for now I'll reenable mmap support, as it shows some benefit on >>> tests. Do you recommend me not to use mmap in future? It is possible >>> I have hit multiple problems here, and mmap opcode messages is only >>> one of them. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Andrew Savchenko >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Becky Ligon >> OrangeFS Support and Development >> Omnibond Systems >> Anderson, South Carolina >> >> >> > > > -- > Becky Ligon > OrangeFS Support and Development > Omnibond Systems > Anderson, South Carolina > > > -- Becky Ligon OrangeFS Support and Development Omnibond Systems Anderson, South Carolina
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