[Lustre-discuss] improving metadata performance [was Re: question about size on MDS (MDT) for lustre-1.8]

2011-02-09 Thread Robin Humble
rejoining this topic after a couple of weeks of experimentation Re: trying to improve metadata performance - we've been running with vfs_cache_pressure=0 on OSS's in production for over a week now and it's improved our metadata performance by a large factor. - filesystem scans that didn't

[Lustre-discuss] osc_brw_redo_request error on clients

2011-02-09 Thread James Robnett
I have a fairly simple lustre environment that consists of a single MDS and 2 OSS's each with 4 OST's. The servers and clients are all running Lustre 1.8.5 under RHEL 5.5, RPM's downloaded from lustre. Normally I've had no problems but recently I have multiple clients reporting the following

Re: [Lustre-discuss] osc_brw_redo_request error on clients

2011-02-09 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Feb 9, 2011, at 4:35 PM, James Robnett wrote: Normally I've had no problems but recently I have multiple clients reporting the following error: LustreError: 3935:0:(osc_request.c:1629:osc_brw_redo_request()) @@@ redo for recoverable error req@8101ae084000