Re: [lustre-discuss] Read performance bad, telepathy in Lustre

2020-01-23 Thread Andreas Dilger
Thomas, If you are positive that the two sets of clients are not reading files on other on the OSTs, I don't think there is anything at the Lustre level that communicates between OSSes to balance traffic or anything like that. One possibility is congestion control at the network level, possibly

Re: [lustre-discuss] rsync not appropriate for lustre

2020-01-23 Thread Åke Sandgren
I think this might be of some interest https://github.com/hpc/mpifileutils On 1/23/20 4:33 PM, Bernd Melchers wrote: > Hi All, > we are copying large data sets within our lustre filesystem and between > lustre and an external nfs server. In both cases the performance is > unexpected low and the

[lustre-discuss] rsync not appropriate for lustre

2020-01-23 Thread Bernd Melchers
Hi All, we are copying large data sets within our lustre filesystem and between lustre and an external nfs server. In both cases the performance is unexpected low and the reason seems that rsync is reading and writing in 32 kB Blocks, whereas our lustre would be more happy with 4 MB Blocks. rsync

[lustre-discuss] Read performance bad, telepathy in Lustre

2020-01-23 Thread Thomas Roth
Hi all, Lustre 2.10.6, 45 OSS with 7 OSTs each on ZFS 0.7.9, 3 MDTs (ldiskfs), clients 2.10 and 2.12. Infiniband network, Mellanox FDR w half bisectional bandwidth. A sample of ~250.000 files, stripe count 1, average size 100 MB. is read with dd, output > /dev/null. The location of the