[lustre-discuss] High MDS load, but no activity

2017-07-27 Thread Kevin M. Hildebrand
We recently updated to Lustre 2.8 on our cluster, and have started seeing some unusal load issues. Last night our MDS load climbed to well over 100, and client performance dropped to almost zero. Initially this appeared to be related to a number of jobs that were doing large numbers of

[lustre-discuss] LAD'17 - Last call!

2017-07-27 Thread DEGREMONT Aurelien
Hello Lustre community! These are the last days to send abstracts for LAD'17, do not wait! We will be pleased to hear about your Lustre experiences. Not only developers but also from sites or admins presenting their Lustre deployment and experiences with it.

Re: [lustre-discuss] High MDS load, but no activity

2017-07-27 Thread Robin Humble
Hi Kevin, On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 08:18:04AM -0400, Kevin M. Hildebrand wrote: >We recently updated to Lustre 2.8 on our cluster, and have started seeing >some unusal load issues. >Last night our MDS load climbed to well over 100, and client performance >dropped to almost zero. >Initially this

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre and OFED

2017-07-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Jeff (and Grigory - offlist), Thanks for your fast replies! On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Jeff Johnson < jeff.john...@aeoncomputing.com> wrote: > Eli, > > The biggest driver is usually the drivers. Newer Mellanox hardware not yet > supported, or supported well, by kernel IB. Way back in the

[lustre-discuss] Lustre and OFED

2017-07-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, How 'needed' is OFED for Lustre? In the LUG talks it is mentioned every once in a while and that got me thinking a bit. What things are gained by installing OFED? Performance? Accurate traffic reports? Currently I am using a lustre system without OFED but our IB hardware is from the FDR

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre and OFED

2017-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
Eli, The biggest driver is usually the drivers. Newer Mellanox hardware not yet supported, or supported well, by kernel IB. Way back in the days of old there were some interoperability issues where everything (clients and servers) needed to be the same drivers and libraries but much of that was

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre and OFED

2017-07-27 Thread Harald van Pee
Hi Eli, we are running lustre without OFED on debian client and server. With lustre 2.4.0 on client and servers no problem at all since years. With lustre 2.5.3 on servers and 2.6. 92 no problems at least for monthes. with lustre 2.5.3 on servers and 2.7 on clients allways ib connection loss.