[Lustre-discuss] high CPU usage on MDS

2011-07-06 Thread Ekaterina Popova
Hello! We've got one MDS (Lustre 2.0) with 4 processors (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPUQ9500 @ 2.83GHz). Our CPU usage is HIGH - 80-100% . With top command we see: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 2973 root 15 0 000 R 35.0 0.0 1509:09

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Questions about MDS flow

2011-07-06 Thread Jianwei Liao
Dear Dilger, Thank you for your reply ! But I still have something unclear. On 07/03/2011 08:54 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote: On 2011-07-01, at 12:54 PM, Jianwei Liaoliaot...@163.com wrote: Though I have read the lustre manual roughly, but i am wondering about the MDS operation flow: 1) Clients

Re: [Lustre-discuss] high CPU usage on MDS

2011-07-06 Thread Colin Faber
Hi, More details are needed here. What type of interconnect are you using? What are your clients doing? etc. -cf On 07/04/2011 11:08 PM, Ekaterina Popova wrote: Hello! We've got one MDS (Lustre 2.0) with 4 processors (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPUQ9500 @ 2.83GHz). Our CPU usage is

[Lustre-discuss] Fwd: Lustre performance issue (obdfilter_survey

2011-07-06 Thread lior amar
Hi, I am installing a Lustre system and I wanted to measure the OSS performance. I used the obdfilter_survey and got very low performance for low thread numbers when using the case=network option System Configuration: * Lustre 1.8.6-wc (compiled from the whamcloud git) * Centos 5.6 * Infiniband

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Fwd: Lustre performance issue (obdfilter_survey

2011-07-06 Thread Cliff White
The case=network part of obdfilter_survey has really been replaced by lnet_selftest. I don't think it's been maintained in awhile. It would be best to repeat the network-only test with lnet_selftest, this is likely an issue with the script. cliffw On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:04 PM, lior amar

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Fwd: Lustre performance issue (obdfilter_survey

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Horn
FYI, there is some work being done to clean up obdfilter-survey. See https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24490 If there was a script issue you might try the patch from that bug to see if you can reproduce. https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24490 Chris Horn On Jul 6, 2011, at

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Queries regarding Lustre Throughput Numbers with mdtest benchmark

2011-07-06 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2011-06-22, at 5:06 PM, vilobh meshram wrote: I have a query regarding Lustre Throughput Numbers with mdtest benchmark.I am running mdtest benhmark with following options :- /home/meshram/mpich2-new/mpich2-1.4/mpich2-install/bin/mpirun -np 256 -hostfile ./hostfile ./mdtest -z 3 -b 10 -I

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Fwd: Lustre performance issue (obdfilter_survey

2011-07-06 Thread lior amar
Hi, First, thanks for your quick replay. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Cliff White cli...@whamcloud.com wrote: The case=network part of obdfilter_survey has really been replaced by lnet_selftest. I don't think it's been maintained in awhile. It would be best to repeat the network-only