[Lustre-discuss] Lustre featured on podcast (HT: Andreas Dilger)

2009-08-03 Thread Brock Palen
Thanks to Andreas for taking an hour out to talk with Jeff Squyres and myself (Brock Palen) about the Lustre cluster filesystem on our podcast www.rce-cast.com, You can find the whole show at: http://www.rce-cast.com/index.php/Podcast/rce-14-lustre-cluster-filesystem.html Thanks again! If

[Lustre-discuss] Clients frozen during pressure test

2009-08-03 Thread Lu Wang
Dear list , I am doing pressure test for a new 10-OSS Lustre file system using 70 client node. (each server has 10Gb Ethernet connection, each client has 1Gb Ethernet connection, there are 3 OST on 3 RAID6 volulme for one OSS) Each time, after about 4 hours,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre featured on podcast (HT: Andreas Dilger)

2009-08-03 Thread Mag Gam
Very nice. 15:54, what is Nagle ? He didn't say anything about SNS, but changeLogs seems very promising! On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Brock Palenbro...@umich.edu wrote: Thanks to Andreas for taking an hour out to talk with Jeff Squyres and myself (Brock Palen) about the Lustre cluster

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre featured on podcast (HT: Andreas Dilger)

2009-08-03 Thread Brock Palen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm Looks like you intentionally hold up data to try to make fatter payloads in packets so they are not 99% header/crc data. Sounds like a way to make latency bad. Brock Palen www.umich.edu/~brockp Center for Advanced Computing bro...@umich.edu

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre featured on podcast (HT: Andreas Dilger)

2009-08-03 Thread Mag Gam
eitherway, good job on the interview. Andres was a sport. try to interview more Lustre developers :-) On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Brock Palenbro...@umich.edu wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm Looks like you intentionally hold up data to try to make fatter payloads

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre featured on podcast (HT: Andreas Dilger)

2009-08-03 Thread Kevin Van Maren
Yes, originally designed so multiple send() calls with small data have a chance to be combined by TCP before being sent over the network -- improve behavior of applications doing small writes. Setting tcp_nodelay disables Nagle, as the additional latency can hurt some interactive session

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre featured on podcast (HT: Andreas Dilger)

2009-08-03 Thread Peter J Milanese
Yes, it hold up any packet that is less than the size of the header, and forwards multiple. - Original Message - From: Brock Palen [bro...@umich.edu] Sent: 08/03/2009 08:35 PM AST To: Mag Gam magaw...@gmail.com Cc: lustre-discuss discuss lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Subject: Re: