We recently noticed a performance problem with our OrangeFS server.

Here are the server stats:
3 servers, built identically with identical hardware

[root@orangefs02 ~]# /usr/sbin/pvfs2-server --version
2.8.7-orangefs (mode: aio-threaded)

[root@orangefs02 ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-308.16.1.el5.584g0000

4 core E5603 1.60GHz
12GB of RAM

OrangeFS is being served to clients using bmi_tcp over DDR Infiniband.
Backend storage is PanFS with 2x10Gig connections on the servers. Performance to the backend looks fine using bonnie++. >100MB/sec write and ~250MB/s read to each stack. ~300 creates/sec.

On the OrangeFS clients are running kernel version 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5.

The biggest problem I have right now is that delete are taking a long time. Almost 1 sec per file.

[root@fatcompute-11-32 L_10_V0.2_eta0.3_wRes_truncerr1e-11]# find N2/|wc -l
137
[root@fatcompute-11-32 L_10_V0.2_eta0.3_wRes_truncerr1e-11]# time rm -rf N2

real    1m31.096s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.015s

Similar results for file creates:

[root@fatcompute-11-32 ]# date;for i in `seq 1 50`;do touch file${i};done;date
Fri May 24 16:04:17 MDT 2013
Fri May 24 16:05:05 MDT 2013

What else do you need to know? Which debug flags? What should we be looking at? I don't see any load on the servers and I've restarted server and rebooted server nodes.

Thanks for any pointers,
Mike Robbert
Colorado School of Mines

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