Hi Bob, first of all, thank you for your amazing work.
Do you include any kind of versioning with your releases so that we can check what gfs2 version is running on our Gentoo with 3.1 kernel, and what version is running on 2.6.32 kernel on centos? The PHP processes hanging in D state are kinda annoying and it's not possible to use the latest centos kernel due to severe crashes in certain conditions. Since I'm very familiar with kernels (Gentoo requires that you make your own), I'm pretty sure that we can build and use a regular mainstream kernel provided by kernel.org - it looks like there is also much development going on by you and Mr. Whitehouse. You say that " The more recent the version, the better and faster GFS2 should be" - do you mean the kernel version or GFS2 version? If the later, how can we find out what version we're running? Thanks in advance, Juergen -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: linux-cluster-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:linux-cluster-boun...@redhat.com] Im Auftrag von Bob Peterson Gesendet: Dienstag, 05. November 2013 18:25 An: linux clustering Betreff: Re: [Linux-cluster] gfs2 kernel versions ----- Original Message ----- | Hi there, | | | | right now we have a centos 6.4 (2.6.32-279) and a Gentoo (3.1.6) gfs2 | cluster running. | | The centos cluster shows some weird behavior with PHP processes | “dying” with process state D (uninterruptable IO). The Gentoo cluster | never had any of those problems. | | | | So I wanted to figure out what gfs2 versions both are running, but I | cant find any significant information on that (changelogs based on | kernel versions etc.) | | Is there any improvement in gfs2 going on in kernels like 2.6.32? or | would it be much better to upgrade to a recent version (3.12 e.g.) to | get all the performance features and bugfixes? | | Or is gfs2 split up in separate packages (gfs2-util etc.) and you can | run current versions of gfs2 also on 2.6.32 kernels? | | | | Thanks in advance for your help. This really confuses me. | | | | Juergen Hi Juergen, Yes, there is ongoing performance work being done in GFS2 in versions ranging from 2.6.32-X to upstream. (I'm doing much of this work). This work is being done mostly in the name of RHEL6.X, but will probably trickle down to Centos in due course. I don't know about Gentoo or where it gets its stuff; sorry. The more recent the version, the better and faster GFS2 should be. So the RHEL6.4 version has a lot of performance patches over RHEL6.3, and the RHEL6.5 version will have a lot of performance patches from RHEL6.4. We (Red Hat) have a performance group that runs benchmarks against the different releases and periodically reports the results to us. Also, we work with our business partners to make sure various third-party apps are running better/faster as well. Very few (if any) of the performance improvements are being back-ported to RHEL5 and/or the 2.6.18 kernels. These are all being pushed upstream as well, which means they'll make their way into Fedora, RHEL7, etc. I don't recommend trying to run an upstream kernel (or RHEL7 kernel) on a RHEL6 or Centos6 box; I doubt it would do the right thing, in general. The same can generally be said about gfs2-utils as well. IOW, the newer the package, the better performance will be, etc. Regards, Bob Peterson Red Hat File Systems -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
