Re: [gpfsug-discuss] reserving memory for GPFS process

2016-12-20 Thread Skylar Thompson
g > search terms. > > > Thanks, > Brian > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] reserving memory for GPFS process

2016-12-20 Thread Skylar Thompson
much > >> we need for GPFS and other ???system??? processes. > >> > >> I can tell you that SLURM is *much* more efficient at killing processes > >> as soon as they exceed the amount of memory they???ve requested than PBS / > >> Moab ever dreamed of being

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Dual homing CES nodes

2017-03-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
networks? -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine ___ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Backup All Cluster GSS GPFS Storage Server

2017-10-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
21 50 73 93 # 303 | Fax : +213 21 50 79 40 | E-mail : > a.khired...@meteo.dz > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, Syst

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] FreeBSD client?

2017-10-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
es such a thing exist? :-) -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine ___ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-d

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Backing up GPFS config

2017-11-14 Thread Skylar Thompson
pectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine __

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Online data migration tool

2017-11-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
reagents. Sure, we could turn them off, but then we're eating $$$ we could be getting back from the vendor. At least SSD prices have come down far enough that we can put our metadata on fast disks now, even if we can't take advantage of the more efficient small file allocation yet.

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] FIle system vs Database

2017-11-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
having POSIX look-alike commands like ls and find that plug into the GPFS API rather than making VFS calls. That's of course a project for my Copious Free Time... -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] FIle system vs Database

2017-11-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
; where there is functional overlap. > > Going either way (Posix or GPFS-specific) - for each API call the > execution path drops into the kernel - and then if required - an > inter-process call to the mmfsd daemon process. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sci

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Meltdown, Spectre, and impacts on GPFS

2018-01-04 Thread Skylar Thompson
gt; Vanderbilt University - Advanced Computing Center for Research and > Education > kevin.buterba...@vanderbilt.edu > <mailto:kevin.buterba...@vanderbilt.edu> - (615)875-9633 > > > > > > ___ > gpfsug-discuss

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Preferred NSD

2018-03-14 Thread Skylar Thompson
e - high i/o load expected). > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > > > >

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Not recommended, but why not?

2018-05-04 Thread Skylar Thompson
__ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washingto

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Snapshots for backups

2018-05-09 Thread Skylar Thompson
ys). FWIW, the operating+capital costs we recharge our grants for tape storage is ~50% of what we recharge them for bulk disk storage. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] IBM Spectrum Scale Support Webinar - Spectrum Scale Disk Lease, Expel & Recovery

2018-05-18 Thread Skylar Thompson
> > > > > > > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Question concerning integration of CES with AD authentication system

2018-05-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
ult ones officially > described in rfc2307 ? > > many thanks. > Regards, > >Alvise Dorigo > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Question concerning integration of CES with AD authentication system

2018-05-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 03:46:32PM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 14:16 +0000, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > I haven't needed to change the LDAP attributes that CES uses, but I > > do see --user-id-attrib in the mmuserauth documentation. > > Unf

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchconfig subnets

2018-06-26 Thread Skylar Thompson
se > the subnets option to identify that it has a private address and then > dynamically shares that with the cluster? > > Thanks in advance for your clarifying comments. > > -Eric > > -- > > Eric Horst > University of Washington > _____

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Those users....

2018-08-22 Thread Skylar Thompson
r the reasonable users to subsidize them. Yep, we set our fileset inode quota to 1 million/TB of allocated space. It seems overly generous to me but it's far better than no limit at all. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrat

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] More Drives For DDN 12KX

2018-08-28 Thread Skylar Thompson
at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine _

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] CES - suspend a node and don't start smb/nfs at mmstartup/boot

2018-11-14 Thread Skylar Thompson
Almaden > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<http://spectrumscale.org> > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<htt

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Hanging file-systems

2018-11-27 Thread Skylar Thompson
cuss] Hanging file-systems > > 1. are you under memory pressure or even worse started swapping . > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skyl

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Get list of filesets _without_ running mmlsfileset?

2019-01-09 Thread Skylar Thompson
gt; > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foe

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Steps for gracefully handling bandwidth reduction during network maintenance

2019-06-17 Thread Skylar Thompson
> damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. > > ___ > > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > > > _

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] default owner and group for POSIX ACLs

2019-10-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
preading incorrect information. TSM can store some amount of metadata in its database without spilling over to a storage pool, so whether a metadata update is cheap or expensive depends not just on ACLs/extended attributes but also the directory entry name length. It can definitely make for some

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup questions

2019-10-17 Thread Skylar Thompson
responding to GPFS filesets) that stress out our mmbackup cluster at the sort step of mmbackup. UNIX sort is not RAM-friendly, as it happens. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washin

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfs client and turning off swap

2019-11-08 Thread Skylar Thompson
ntly large, but it does not > > distinguish between clients and IO servers. > > > > Let me know when you get a chance. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washing

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?

2020-01-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
out and run rpmrebuild for ourselves. > > > > IBM should be hanging their heads in shame if the replacement RPM is > missing files. > > JAB. > > -- > Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420 > HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt. > U

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?

2020-01-17 Thread Skylar Thompson
t; 1-800-237-5511 in the United States or your local IBM Service Center in > other countries. > > The forum is informally monitored as time permits and should not be used > for priority messages to the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team. > > gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org wro

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] naive question about rsync: run it on a client or on NSD server?

2020-02-14 Thread Skylar Thompson
rsync on one of the NSD server or is > better to run it on a client? > > The environment: > GPFS 4.2.3.19, NSD CentOS7.4, clients mostly CentOS6.4 (connected by IB > QDR) and CentOS7.3 (connected by OPA), connection between NSD and storage > with IB QDR) -- -- Skylar Thompson

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-02-20 Thread Skylar Thompson
we provide. The newer kernel available in CentOS 7 (and now 8) supports large numbers of CPUs and large amounts of memory far better than the ancient CentOS 6 kernel as well. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Ad

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-02-20 Thread Skylar Thompson
SPARC system just to run a 15-year-old component of a pipeline for which they don't have source code... -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 --

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-02-20 Thread Skylar Thompson
aren't quite a panacea; there's still the issue of insecure software being baked into the container, but at least we can limit what the container can access more easily than running outside a container. > > On Feb 20, 2020, at 11:59 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > > >

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-02-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
art of the plan is to make it clear where we're willing to accept risk, and to limit our own liability. No process is going to be perfect, but we at least know and accept where those imperfections are. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Adm

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup monitoring

2020-03-25 Thread Skylar Thompson
does not mean the backup completed as far as I know. > > What solutions are you all using, or does mmbackup in 5.x update the > filespaceview table? -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046,

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup monitoring

2020-03-25 Thread Skylar Thompson
r and deleted for each user, > including their paths. You can do more tricks if you want. > > Jaime > > > On 3/25/2020 10:15:59, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > We execute mmbackup via a regular TSM client schedule with an incremental > > action, with a virtualmountpoint set to a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wait for mount during gpfs startup

2020-04-28 Thread Skylar Thompson
k.htm On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:30:38AM +, Frederick Stock wrote: > Have you looked a the mmaddcallback command and specifically the file system > mount callbacks? -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wait for mount during gpfs startup

2020-04-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:50:27PM +0200, Ulrich Sibiller wrote: > Am 28.04.20 um 15:57 schrieb Skylar Thompson: > >> Have you looked a the mmaddcallback command and specifically the file > system mount callbacks? > > > We use callbacks successfully to ensure Linux audi

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] dependent versus independent filesets

2020-07-07 Thread Skylar Thompson
> Thank you. > Damir > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department (UW Medicine), System Administrator

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] dependent versus independent filesets

2020-07-07 Thread Skylar Thompson
ecent % of oversubscription if they use > filesets and quotas. > > Ed > OSC > > -Original Message- > From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org > On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 10:00 AM > To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.or

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Best of spectrum scale

2020-09-09 Thread Skylar Thompson
t midway could leave CCR inconsistent). I'm with Jonathan here: the command should fail with an informative message, and the admin can correct the problem (just cd somewhere else). -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department (UW Medicine), System Administrat

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Portability interface

2020-09-22 Thread Skylar Thompson
n on Skylake? > > > JAB. > > -- > Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420 > HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt. > University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG > _______ > gpfsug-di

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] SC20 Planning - What questions would you ask a panel?

2020-10-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
0 PM UTC > > > > Best, > > Kristy > > > > Kristy Kallback-Rose > > Senior HPC Storage Systems Analyst > > National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center > > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory > > > >

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Migrate/syncronize data from Isilon to Scale over NFS?

2020-11-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
lon so we should be able to reach just under > 20Gbit... > > > if anyone have any ideas they are welcome! > > > Thanks in advance > Andi Christiansen > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrum

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Migrate/syncronize data from Isilon to Scale over NFS?

2020-11-17 Thread Skylar Thompson
method I setup where we captured the output of find from both sides of the transfer and preserved it for posterity, but obviously did require a hard-stop date on the source. Fortunately, we seem committed to GPFS so it might be we never have to do another bulk transfer outside of the filesyste

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Mounting filesystem on top of an existing filesystem

2020-11-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
point + symlink, but I > > really would prefer to avoid symlinks. > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > Marc > > > > _____ > > Paul Scherrer Institut > > High Performance Computing &

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Protect and disk pools

2021-01-04 Thread Skylar Thompson
; gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department (UW Medicine), System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- Pronouns: He/Him/H

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Ransom attacks

2021-05-27 Thread Skylar Thompson
ata that can be encrypted very quickly. > > Is there anything that can protect the GPFS filesystem against this kind of > attack? -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department (UW Medicine), System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS systemd and gpfs.gplbin

2021-06-10 Thread Skylar Thompson
rson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG > ___ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department (UW

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup file selections

2022-01-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
> gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department (UW Medicine), System Administrator -- Fo

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup file selections

2022-01-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
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Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup file selections

2022-01-26 Thread Skylar Thompson
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Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to do multiple mounts via GPFS

2022-02-22 Thread Skylar Thompson
at's the standard way to accomplish something like this? > We've used systemd timers/mounts to accomplish it, but that's not ideal. > Is there a way to do this natively with gpfs or does this have to be done > through symlinks or gpfs over nfs? -- -- Skylar Thompson

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to do multiple mounts via GPFS

2022-02-22 Thread Skylar Thompson
oauto. > The noauto lets it boot, but the mount is never mounted properly. Doing > a manual mount -a mounts it. > > On 2/22/22 12:37, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > Assuming this is on Linux, you ought to be able to use bind mounts for > > that, something like this in fstab or

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to do multiple mounts via GPFS

2022-02-22 Thread Skylar Thompson
doesn't mount until > after the gpfs.service starts, and even then it's 20-30 seconds. > > > On 2/22/22 14:42, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > Like Tina, we're doing bind mounts in autofs. I forgot that there might be > > a race condition if you're doing it in