On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Simon Matthews
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I installed "iotop" and it shows multiple nfsd processes driving a lot of
> I/O. I have always assumed that the qmaster and the execution clients need
> to share a common SGE_ROOT directory. Is this true?

You don't need to have a shared SGE_ROOT, see:

http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/howto/nfsreduce.html

And for SGE 6.2u5 or below, you can't have BerkeleyDB on NFS (unless
it is NFSv4). For Grid Engine 2011.11, you can place your BerkeleyDB
spool directory on any version of NFS.

Rayson



> If not, then I can make
> each execution machine have a local SGE_ROOT directory, which will eliminate
> the I/O from nfsd.
>
> Simon
>
>
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