Re: Disable aggregation of requests

2009-02-19 Thread Erez Zilber
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Boaz Harrosh bharr...@panasas.com wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Erez Zilber wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: Erez Zilber wrote: Hi, I'm running a setup of open-iscsi connected to a target. When I run I/O

question regarding offlined device

2009-02-19 Thread Jesse Butler
I am trying to troubleshoot why a connection is popping up and down, and finally staying down, with a Linux RHEL 5.2 Open iSCSI / iSER initiator. I see various references to host reset, and finally one looks like the following. It says it succeeded, but this time rather than IO

Re: Disable aggregation of requests

2009-02-19 Thread Boaz Harrosh
Erez Zilber wrote: You can select the no-op I/O elevator and you can also use direct IO like with sg_dd from the sg_utils package I'm using noop already, but that didn't help. I'll try to ask in lkml. Thanks, Erez Using the sg3-utils package sg_dd command you can issue individual

Re: Disable aggregation of requests

2009-02-19 Thread Boaz Harrosh
Or Gerlitz wrote: Boaz Harrosh wrote: You can select the no-op I/O elevator and you can also use direct IO like with sg_dd from the sg_utils package Does anyone know why noop is not the default I/O scheduler? It is a very bad idea in case of using a filesystem which is usually the

Re: question regarding offlined device

2009-02-19 Thread Mike Christie
/iJesse Butler wrote: I am trying to troubleshoot why a connection is popping up and down, and finally staying down, with a Linux RHEL 5.2 Open iSCSI / iSER initiator. I see various references to host reset, and finally one looks like the following. It says it succeeded, but this

Re: Disable aggregation of requests

2009-02-19 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:13:10PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: Or Gerlitz wrote: Boaz Harrosh wrote: You can select the no-op I/O elevator and you can also use direct IO like with sg_dd from the sg_utils package Does anyone know why noop is not the default I/O scheduler? .. snip..

Re: Disable aggregation of requests

2009-02-19 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:28:31PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: Sorry, but why file system over block device whose scheduler being noop is a bad idea? The noop scheduler doesn't re-order requests, so concurrent accesses to multiple files will cause lots of extra seeking and throughput collapses.

Re: is iSNS available for open-iscsi?

2009-02-19 Thread StorageSolutionGroup
Hi, Open-scsi solution is compatible with almost every solution.I have worked with solutions like Solaris,Windows,LinuxIts working fine. I have worked with vendor like Stonefly,Nexenta and DNF Storage and found compatible with iSNS server.Its very easy to configure with Stonefly and DNF

Re: Disable aggregation of requests

2009-02-19 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Mark van Walraven ma...@netvalue.net.nz In my experience, noop works well on the initiator. On the target, deadline is slightly better than noop on the target for the workloads I see, on my equipment, YMMV. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience and