Re: [Lustre-discuss] Same performance Infiniband and Ethernet

2014-05-19 Thread Hammitt, Charles Allen
Two things: 1) Linux write cache is likely getting in the way; you'd be better off trying to write directly forgoing cache 2) you need to write a much bigger file than 1GB; try 50GB Then as the previous poster said, maybe your disks aren't up to snuff or are misconfigured. Also, very

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Disk array setup opinions

2013-03-11 Thread Hammitt, Charles Allen
Is capacity potential or performance potential more important to you? Raid type and segment size are characteristics of a disk group not a virtual disk...so the answer is right there depending on your needs... Then we could move the conversation on to disaster recovery as well... Regards,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] is Luster ready for prime time?

2013-01-17 Thread Hammitt, Charles Allen
Somewhat surprised that no one has responded yet; although it’s likely that the responses would be rather subjective…including mine, of course! Generally I would say that it would be interesting to know more about your datasets and intended workload; however, you mention this is to be used as

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre read performance decay when OSSes are assigned in two different subnet

2012-03-15 Thread Hammitt, Charles Allen
Networking overhead… vlan routing perhaps; 1) with either adding an extra network device hop and latency from a network device/router or 2) overburdened switch handling the routing itself still introducing network latency. Latency is the storage and network i/o bandwidth killer. I’m

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre read performance decay when OSSes are assigned in two different subnet

2012-03-15 Thread Hammitt, Charles Allen
...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:38 AM To: Hammitt, Charles Allen; lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Subject: Re: RE: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre read performance decay when OSSes are assigned in two different subnet Thanks a lot , Charles. I agree with you about this problem. And I did more tests

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre Training offering: 2012 January, 24-26in Denver, Colorado

2011-12-09 Thread Hammitt, Charles Allen
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