Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Risenhoover
Hi Wendy, Thanks for responding. Is there any way I can get this patch sooner than "soon?" I'm not trying to be cheeky, but this file system is in production, and the performance issues are too substantial for me to continue down the the gfs path without some insurance that this fix will re

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread Wendy Cheng
Paul Risenhoover wrote: Sorry about this mis-send. I'm guessing my problem has to do with this: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cluster/2007-October/msg00332.html BTW: My file system is 13TB. I found this article that talks about tuning the glock_purge setting: http://people.redhat.co

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Risenhoover
Hi James, Like I said in my last email, my M500i has been swell so far, but I'm only using one interface. In regards to your problems though, did you ever call Promise to get help? I haven't had a big need to call them in the past, but when I have, they've been extremely helpful. My think

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread James Chamberlain
Hi Paul, In my experience with the VTrak M500i, it didn't seem like it could handle active multipathing. When I tried to use both interfaces simultaneously rather than fail over between them, my throughput to the disks dropped to less than 1 MB/s. It looks like they've made some improvements

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread Noman Syed
Hello all, I have a two-node Centos 4 platform GFS cluster platform. However, periodically one of the node gets fenced off (shutdown). I need help figuring out what is going on under the hood. Any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated Thanks, On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Paul Ri

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Risenhoover
Yes and No. I've been running a RHEL 4.x server connected to a VTrak M500i with 750GB disks for the last year, and it's run beautifully. I have had no performance problems with a 5TB volume (the disk array wasn't fully loaded). In an effort to increase storage, I just purchased a VTrak 610

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread James Chamberlain
Hi Paul, I'm guessing from the information you give below that you're using a Promise VTrak M500i with 1 TB disks? Can you confirm this? I had uneven experience with that platform, which led me to abandon it; but I did make one or two discoveries along the way which may be useful if they are

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Risenhoover
Sorry about this mis-send. I'm guessing my problem has to do with this: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cluster/2007-October/msg00332.html BTW: My file system is 13TB. I found this article that talks about tuning the glock_purge setting: http://people.redhat.com/wcheng/Patches/GFS/readm

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Risenhoover
I'm guessing my problem has to do with this: Paul Risenhoover wrote: Hi All, I am experiencing some substantial performance problems on my RHEL 5 server running GFS. The specific symptom that I'm seeing is that the file system will hang for anywhere from 5 to 45 seconds on occasion. When

[Linux-cluster] GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Risenhoover
Hi All, I am experiencing some substantial performance problems on my RHEL 5 server running GFS. The specific symptom that I'm seeing is that the file system will hang for anywhere from 5 to 45 seconds on occasion. When this happens it stalls all processes that are attempting to access the