Re: [CentOS] Fwd: RHEL5 network throughput/scalability

[Walid]

Hi Bent,

Have you tried the latest bz32 kernel from Johnny?
> 
>
> I have kind of lost faith in RH kernels as far as NFS performance is
> concerned - and yes, I know that the bz32 issue is supposedly
> solved in 5.2 but until we can positively confirm that ourselves I
> ain't letting it near our production servers


Yes I did, however now that you mention it, when i did first time i had two
issues one of performance that  i am  not getting the required  performance
in terms of bandwidth, and by applying the standard  RHEL4  kernel network
parameters that did fix it, now i am left with that scalability issue

regards

Walid
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Re: [CentOS] Fwd: RHEL5 network throughput/scalability

[Bent Terp]

> I have an issue with a new cluster setup where the nodes are RHEL5.1(with
> the latest 5.2 kernel), when i try to write NFS data, the nodes scale

Have you tried the latest bz32 kernel from Johnny?


I have kind of lost faith in RH kernels as far as NFS performance is
concerned - and yes, I know that the bz32 issue is supposedly
solved in 5.2 but until we can positively confirm that ourselves I
ain't letting it near our production servers

BR Bent
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[CentOS] Fwd: RHEL5 network throughput/scalability

[Walid]

Hi All,

I have posted this messgage yesterday in the Beowulf mailing list, and did
not get any responses, as i have  tried different Centos kernels to see if
the behaviour changes or not, and it did not change much, I am posting it
here, I hope no one minds, and thanks in advance for any pointers or clues?

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From: Walid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/6/12
Subject: RHEL5 network throughput/scalability
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Hi All,

I have an issue with a new cluster setup where the nodes are RHEL5.1(with
the latest 5.2 kernel), when i try to write NFS data, the nodes scale
linearly until they reach the 10th node, that is the bandwidth , and
throughput seen from the NFS sever on the other side of the nodes shows a
liner increment from around 100+Mbyte/sec up to 1Gbyte/sec, however when we
add another extra node to the equation the bandwidth/throughput becomes
erratic/inconsistent, and drops to around 500-700Mbyte/sec. however if i try
the same setup with RHEL4U6 i do not get the same behaviour it sustains the
bandwidth at 1Gbyte/sec. the setup is like this 48 nodes sharing 48 port
access switch that is up linked  using 10g link to a CISCO 6509 switch which
is linked to a Clustered NFS File system that consist of eight heads where
each head linked using a 10G link to the 6509. the above was a write test,
so i thought may be the tcp congestion kicked in, or sliding windows
problem, however when i do a read test it gets worse, the scalability now is
reduced to 5 nodes that is one node is able to read around 100 MBps, two
will read double, and so on until you add the fifth node where the bandwidth
drops from around 500+MBps to around 300, and again from RHEL4 the behaviour
is different.

any pointers?

TIA

Walid
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