On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Rayson Ho <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>

Great! I'll reconfigure things to use a local spool directory -- that
should eliminate much of the issue.

Simon

>
> 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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