Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre failover of MGS

2008-11-26 Thread neil rutter
guys, actually, the original cmds i ran did have the = signs for the --failnode= arguments; i gave the wrong bash history info to kevin to analyse when he asked for them from the host :) however, having said that, it's the NIDs that were missing from the hosts that fixed the issues i was havin

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre failover of MGS

2008-11-26 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 10:22 -0700, Kevin Van Maren wrote: > > Brian, Hi Kevin, > Here are the original, incorrect, mkfs commands: > > mkfs.lustre --reformat --fsname bananafs --failnode lustremds2 --mgs > /dev/sdb > mkfs.lustre --reformat --fsname bananafs --failnode lustremds2 > --mgsnode=lu

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre failover of MGS

2008-11-26 Thread Kevin Van Maren
Kevin Van Maren wrote: > Brian J. Murrell wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 23:34 +, neil rutter wrote: >> >>> kevin, brian, >>> >>> thanks to you both. i had a mkfs.lustre error, which after had been >>> pointed out fixed the issue. >>> >> >> Can you share the error here so that future s

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre failover of MGS

2008-11-26 Thread Kevin Van Maren
Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 23:34 +, neil rutter wrote: > >> kevin, brian, >> >> thanks to you both. i had a mkfs.lustre error, which after had been >> pointed out fixed the issue. >> > > Can you share the error here so that future searches of this problem are > com

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre failover of MGS

2008-11-26 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 23:34 +, neil rutter wrote: > kevin, brian, > > thanks to you both. i had a mkfs.lustre error, which after had been > pointed out fixed the issue. Can you share the error here so that future searches of this problem are complete with a solution? There's nothing more fr

[Lustre-discuss] lustre/abaqus tweaks for lustre?

2008-11-26 Thread Brock Palen
I have seen a few papers around, but does anyone have comments on how to optimize ether lustre or abaqus to use lustre for scratch? I see reads coming in at only 20MB/s and IO Wait gets quite high on the client. I know this is probably not enough information, but is there any knobs people ha

[Lustre-discuss] Using Lustre with Ubuntu and Infiniband

2008-11-26 Thread Ramiro Alba Queipo
Hi all: I am starting an installation of Lustre with 76 DELL PowerEdge SC1435 (2 Quad-Core processors) and Mellanox DDR 20 Gb/s infiniband Cards and I wonder if anyone is using or beginning to use a similar installation (basically Lustre + Ubuntu 8.04 + Infinidad) so as we can comment some aspects

Re: [Lustre-discuss] page allocation failure

2008-11-26 Thread Wang lu
The %util of memory on OSS was always around 10% ,even when OSS was going to die. The OSS kernel is: 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL_lustre.1.6.5smp(32bit) Lustre version is 1.6.5.1 We have 8GB physical memory and 16GB(never been used) swap total. Is there a problem with memory management? Nikita Danilov

Re: [Lustre-discuss] page allocation failure

2008-11-26 Thread Nikita Danilov
Lu Wang writes: > Dear list, Hello, > I found these errors on OSS, is this a dangerours signal ? your ost runs out of memory, which is not by itself `dangerous' as a temporary condition (client resends pages in this case). What version of lustre and kernel are you using? Nikita.