Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Long IO waiters and IBM Storwize V5030

2021-05-28 Thread Andrew Beattie
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Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Long IO waiters and IBM Storwize V5030

2021-05-28 Thread Uwe Falke
rgericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 17122 From: "Uwe Falke" To: gpfsug main discussion list Date: 28/05/2021 22:04 Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Long IO waiters and IBM Storwize V5030 Sent by:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org Hi, odd prefetch str

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Long IO waiters and IBM Storwize V5030

2021-05-28 Thread Uwe Falke
Ehningen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 17122 From: Jan-Frode Myklebust To: gpfsug main discussion list Date: 28/05/2021 19:50 Subject:[EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Long IO waiters and IBM Storwize V5030 Sent by:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org One thing

[gpfsug-discuss] Long IO waiters and IBM Storwize V5030

2021-05-28 Thread Saula, Oluwasijibomi
Hi Folks, So, we are experiencing some very long IO waiters in our GPFS cluster: # mmdiag --waiters === mmdiag: waiters === Waiting 17.3823 sec since 10:41:01, monitored, thread 21761 NSDThread: for I/O completion Waiting 16.6140 sec since 10:41:02, monitored, thread 21730 NSDThread: for

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Long IO waiters and IBM Storwize V5030

2021-05-28 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
One thing to check: Storwize/SVC code will *always* guess wrong on prefetching for GPFS. You can see this with having a lot higher read data throughput on mdisk vs. on on vdisks in the webui. To fix it, disable cache_prefetch with "chsystem -cache_prefetch off". This being a global setting, you