Re: [Lustre-discuss] Optimize parallel commpilation on lustre

2010-06-29 Thread Maxence Dunnewind
> > 4 min 43 againt 4 min 51 without it (-j 8) > > Ah, this number is with a separate server for the input files. It might be > more interesting to see if it made a difference with the files all hosted on > the same server. With the source on the same lustre mount : - 5min34 without patch, sou

[Lustre-discuss] Max bandwidth through a single 4xQDR IB link?

2010-06-29 Thread Ashley Pittman
Hi, Could anyone confirm to me the maximum achievable bandwidth over a single 4xQDR IB link into a OSS node. I have many clients doing a write test over IB and want to know the maximum bandwidth we can expect to see for each OSS node. For MPI over these links we see between 3 and 3.5BG/s but

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Max bandwidth through a single 4xQDR IB link?

2010-06-29 Thread Kevin Van Maren
DAPL is a high-performance interface that uses a small shim to provide a common DMA API on top of (in this case) the IB verbs layer. In general, there is a very small performance impact to be able to use the common API, so you will not get more large-message bandwidth using native IB verbs. I'

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Max bandwidth through a single 4xQDR IB link?

2010-06-29 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Ashley, hello Kevin, I really see no point to use disks to benchmark performance, when lnet_selftest exists. Benchmark order should be: - test how much the disks can provide - test network with lnet_selftest => make sure lustre performance is not much below the min(disks, lnet_selftes

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Can't put file on specific device or see it it in lfs df -h

2010-06-29 Thread Katya Tutlyaeva
Привет, Bernd! >Can you post the output of "lfs check servers" on the client side? > Difficult to say anything without log files. I have just restarted server and now all OST devices works normally. Can't explain this. Thank you for your time and advice! Best regards, Katya ___

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Question on lustre redundancy/failure features

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Grandi
> Lustre is not the solution I'm looking for. I was hoping that to use > it as an easily expandable storage cluster But it is that; it is just a particular type of storage cluster system with a specific performance profile. As to "expandable", consider again whether your requirements involve a s

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Question on lustre redundancy/failure features

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Grandi
>>> I'm looking at using Lustre to implement a centralized >>> storage for several virtualized machines. >> That's such a cliche, and Lustre is very suitable for it if >> you don't mind network latency :-), or if you use a very low >> latency fabric. >> [ ... ] choose to provide resource virtuali

[Lustre-discuss] Compiling Lustre with latest kernel.

2010-06-29 Thread Onkar Mahajan
Is it possible to compile Lustre as a module ? AFAIK , it's not possible. How do I compile Lustre with the latest Linux kernel ? I went through the documentation on building from source but It only talks about compiling with RHEL & SLES kernels and not general kernels. Regards, Onkar ___