Jim:

Can you send me your test cases to see if I can duplicate them?

Which version of OrangeFS are you using?

Becky

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jim Kusznir <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I'm again working on troubleshooting what appears to be poor pvfs2
> performance on my cluster.  Previously, it was suspected that the
> issue was networking, so now I have a 10GbE (Solarflare) network
> solution throughout.  Unfortunately, transfer speeds to individual
> clients max out at around 70MB/s (with the servers sending 20-30MB/s)
> for a single concurrent client (i.e., gigabit speeds).  When I scale
> that to 3 clients, I see the same performance, but once I add a 4th
> client, the servers max out at about 70-80MB/s and my clients drop to
> about 52MB/s.  So it seems that I can only get Gigabit speeds out of
> the system through and through.
>
> What I did notice is a client running at about 70-80MB/s was using up
> about 50% of a core.  My server, when it was serving >=3 concurrent
> clients was using 101-107% CPU (eg, one full core plus a little).
> iostat -mx2 reported about 21% utilization on my disks.
>
> I'm suspecting that pvfs2's CPU-intensive portions of the server are
> single-threaded despite how many clients connect, so I'm going to be
> limited there, is that correct?
>
> Any ideas why I can't move data any faster than 80MB/s?
>
> --Jim
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Becky Ligon
OrangeFS Support and Development
Omnibond Systems
Anderson, South Carolina
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