[Lustre-discuss] Lustre::LFS + Lustre::Info (inc. lustre-info.pl) available on the CPAN

2010-07-28 Thread Adrian Ulrich
First: Sorry for the shameless self advertising, but... I uploaded two lustre-related modules to the CPAN: #1: Lustre::Info provides easy access to information located at /proc/fs/lustre, it also comes with a 'performance monitoring' script called 'lustre-info.pl' #2 Lustre::LFS offers I

[Lustre-discuss] Read ahead / prefetching

2010-07-28 Thread Arifa Nisar
Hi, I am trying to educate myself on prefetching/readahead algorithm for Lustre's read. For a starter I only have two simple questions. 1 - Does Lustre detect linear or random I/O pattern or it always triggers readahead? 2 - If readahead is triggered, how many pages are read in addition to what i

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Read ahead / prefetching

2010-07-28 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-07-28, at 10:43, Arifa Nisar wrote: > I am trying to educate myself on prefetching/readahead algorithm for > Lustre's read. For a starter I only have two simple questions. > > 1 - Does Lustre detect linear or random I/O pattern or it always triggers > readahead? The current algorithm dete