Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Passing the entire param struct

2007-03-07 Thread Pete Wyckoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:57 -0600: > i'm shocked that everyone agrees :). pete :)? -- rob Totally. When have I ever been one to be contrary? :) -- Pete ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-u

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Passing the entire param struct

2007-03-07 Thread Rob Ross
i'm shocked that everyone agrees :). pete :)? -- rob Walter B. Ligon III wrote: This sounds reasonable. Walt Sam Lang wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Robert Latham wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:23:30PM +0100, Julian Martin Kunkel wrote: I found some unexpected behavior in the dis

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Passing the entire param struct

2007-03-07 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
This sounds reasonable. Walt Sam Lang wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Robert Latham wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:23:30PM +0100, Julian Martin Kunkel wrote: I found some unexpected behavior in the distribution behavior if I set in MPI-programs the MPI hint striping_unit to (whatev

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] server crash on startup with millions of files

2007-03-07 Thread Phil Carns
Can we conclude this discussion? In summary: * The current comparison function causes bad IO patterns for iterate on the dspace db. We can change it but the disk format will change in new releases. - If we change it, either we check a version number and provide the right compariso

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] server crash on startup with millions of files

2007-03-07 Thread Sam Lang
On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Sam Lang wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Phil Carns wrote: Sam Lang wrote: On Feb 28, 2007, at 6:54 AM, Phil Carns wrote: I know that you guys still have some ongoing discussion about the long range design for tracking handles, but I have another item about

[Pvfs2-developers] Re: Passing the entire param struct

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Latham
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:03:06PM -0600, Sam Lang wrote: > My proposal is to change the PVFS_dist_set_param call to take the > entire distribution param struct, instead of individual fields within > that struct. This would force callers to first get the current > parameters, so that they we

[Pvfs2-developers] Passing the entire param struct

2007-03-07 Thread Sam Lang
On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Robert Latham wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:23:30PM +0100, Julian Martin Kunkel wrote: I found some unexpected behavior in the distribution behavior if I set in MPI-programs the MPI hint striping_unit to (whatever) value. Thanks for the bug report. This one

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Unexpected file distribution with MPI-programs using the MPI hint striping_unit

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Latham
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:23:30PM +0100, Julian Martin Kunkel wrote: > I found some unexpected behavior in the distribution behavior if I > set in MPI-programs the MPI hint striping_unit to (whatever) value. Thanks for the bug report. This one was rather gross. I've attached a patch to fix it.

[Pvfs2-developers] Visualization of SM-states with jumpshot etc.

2007-03-07 Thread Julian Martin Kunkel
Hi, Maybe you remember my old email where I talked about the visualization environment? Maybe I should have sent it to the developers list instead of the internal list :-) Well, I thought it is nice to visualize the state transitions with jumpshot, e.g. create a event for each new state. In orde