Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS, MMAP and Pagepool

2018-04-11 Thread Lohit Valleru
Hey Sven, This is regarding mmap issues and GPFS. We had discussed previously of experimenting with GPFS 5. I now have upgraded all of compute nodes and NSD nodes to GPFS 5.0.0.2 I am yet to experiment with mmap performance, but before that - I am seeing weird hangs with GPFS 5 and I think it

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS, MMAP and Pagepool

2018-02-22 Thread valleru
Thanks a lot Sven. I was trying out all the scenarios that Ray mentioned, with respect to lroc and all flash GPFS cluster and nothing seemed to be effective. As of now, we are deploying a new test cluster on GPFS 5.0 and it would be good to know the respective features that could be enabled and

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS, MMAP and Pagepool

2018-02-22 Thread Sven Oehme
Hi Lohit, i am working with ray on a mmap performance improvement right now, which most likely has the same root cause as yours , see --> http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss/2018-January/004411.html the thread above is silent after a couple of back and rorth, but ray and i have active

[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS, MMAP and Pagepool

2018-02-22 Thread valleru
Hi all, I wanted to know, how does mmap interact with GPFS pagepool with respect to filesystem block-size? Does the efficiency depend on the mmap read size and the block-size of the filesystem even if all the data is cached in pagepool? GPFS 4.2.3.2 and CentOS7. Here is what i observed: I