Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1GB throughput limit on OST (1.8.5)?

2011-01-27 Thread Balagopal Pillai
I guess you have two gigabit nics bonded in mode 6 and not two 1GB nics? (B-Bytes, b-bits) The max aggregate throughput could be about 200MBps out of the 2 bonded nics. I think the mode 0 bonding works only with cisco etherchannel or something similar on the switch side. Same with the FC

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Performance Expectations of Lustre

2009-01-26 Thread Balagopal Pillai
MD3000 series doesn't seem to have raid 6 support, which could be very useful with lots of sata drives. Also MD3000i doesn't specify LACP support for the dual or quad Ethernet ports on the enclosure. But a pe1950 + perc 6 with MD1000 has raid 6 support and the OSS can benefit from good ethernet

[Lustre-discuss] filesystem corruption

2008-08-08 Thread Balagopal Pillai
Hi, The storage server that served Lustre had a drive failure on the 3ware 9650 raid6 array and it seemed to rebuild fine. But almost all volumes in that array seems to have filesystem corruption. The partitions with OS didn't boot after i did the fsck as it deleted lots of

[Lustre-discuss] [Fwd: filesystem corruption]

2008-08-08 Thread Balagopal Pillai
Subject:[Lustre-discuss] filesystem corruption Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:27:29 -0300 From: Balagopal Pillai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Department of Mathematics and Statistics To: Lustre discuss lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Hi

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Benchmarking small file performance

2008-05-17 Thread Balagopal Pillai
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote: Hi, Postmark is a good benchmark for small file peformance. I have tried it with gfs and lustre before for comparison. Lustre doesn't shine well in that benchmark. But when the file size is set a little high, lustre does pick up quite a bit.

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Benchmarking small file performance

2008-05-17 Thread Balagopal Pillai
settings for very small files, the results are worse than nfs. Lustre could still be a good choice for mail servers that use mbox, but for maildir i am not so sure. Regards Balagopal On May 17, 2008 13:47 -0300, Balagopal Pillai wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2008, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote

[Lustre-discuss] strange lustre errors

2008-03-06 Thread Balagopal Pillai
Hi, On a few of the hpc cluster nodes, i am seeing a new lustre error that is pasted below. The volumes are working fine and there is nothing on the oss and mds to report. LustreError: 5080:0:(import.c:607:ptlrpc_connect_interpret()) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@tcp changed handle from

Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre and small files overhead

2008-02-29 Thread Balagopal Pillai
Hi, Please read the i/o tunables in the proc section in the lustre manual. I tried that with the postmark benchmark to test improvement and there was some improvement after trying the suggestions in the Lustre manual. Regards Balagopal Joe Barjo wrote: Hi We have a (small) 30 node