Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre buffer cache causes large system overhead.

2013-08-23 Thread Brian O'Connor
Watch for swapping now. Turning zone reclaim on can cause the machine to swap if the memory use goes outside of the NUMA node. Although you don't have much memory(which IMHO is the real issue) so this may not effect you. -Original Message- From: Dragseth Roy Einar [roy.drags...@uit.no

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre over two TCP interfaces

2013-06-26 Thread Brian O'Connor
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Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre over two TCP interfaces

2013-06-25 Thread Brian O'Connor
Unless something has changed in the new versions of lustre, I don't think lustre can do failover between nids on the same machine. It can choose the available nid at mount time, but if an active nid goes away after you are mounted then the client chooses the failover nid, and this must be on a

Re: [Lustre-discuss] [wc-discuss] Remove a inactive OST

2012-11-05 Thread Brian O'Connor
UP osc cetafs-OST000d-osc-MDT cetafs-MDT-mdtlov_UUID 5 >>>>>> 192.168.11.19@tcp >>>>>> 18 UP osc cetafs-OST000e-osc-MDT cetafs-MDT-mdtlov_UUID 5 >>>>>> 192.168.11.20@tcp >&

[Lustre-discuss] Fwd: lctl dl -t on mds differes from reality :)

2012-01-16 Thread Brian O'Connor
or is there some thing else screwed. -- Brian O'Connor - SGI Consulting Email: bri...@sgi.com, Mobile +61 417 746 452 Phone: +61 3 9963 1900, Fax: +61 3 9963 1902 357 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria, 3124 AUSTRALIA http://w

Re: [Lustre-discuss] help

2011-09-30 Thread Brian O'Connor
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[Lustre-discuss] a version of lustre that works with RHEL55

2011-09-18 Thread Brian O'Connor
ilt-in.o error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61639 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61639 (%build) make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1 make: *** [rpm] Error 2 [build@cslab2 linux-2.6.18.x86_64]$ I'll keep trying.. -- Brian O'Connor --

[Lustre-discuss] IB storage as an OST target

2011-03-27 Thread Brian O'Connor
Anybody had any experience using an IB based storage target as an OST? Apart from the obvious issue of separating the IB SAN(SRP/SER) storage traffic from the Lustre traffic are there any issues? What about failover? -- Brian O'C

[Lustre-discuss] software raid

2011-03-23 Thread Brian O'Connor
mostly about Sun/Oracle trying to sell hardware raid. thoughts? -- Brian O'Connor --- SGI Consulting Email: bri...@sgi.com, Mobile +61 417 746 452 Phone: +61 3 9963 1900, Fax: +61 3 9963 1902 357 Camberwell Road, Cambe

[Lustre-discuss] Multiple IB ports

2011-03-20 Thread Brian O'Connor
ize a cluster and clients to get ~10GBytes/Sec on *one* client node. If I can aggregate IB linearly the next step will be to try and figure out How to get 10Gigabytes/s to local storage :-( Some times customers are crazy... Brian O&#

[Lustre-discuss] Can one node mount more than one lustre cluster?

2011-03-14 Thread Brian O'Connor
two Lustre clusters with separate MGS/MDS/OSS. One lustre is Lincoln and the other is Washington >list_nids 192.168.1.10@o2ib >mount -t lustre lincoln:/lustre /lincoln >mount -t lustre washington:/lustre /washinton Is this doable or should they be on separate IB fabrics -- Brian

[Lustre-discuss] Virtual machines

2010-09-08 Thread Brian O'Connor
Two quick Questions. Does lustre work in a VM? what about in a VM over Infiniband? Brian O'Connor --- SGI Consulting Email: bri...@sgi.com, Mobile +61 417 746 452 Phone: +61 3 9963 1900, Fax: +61 3 9963 190

[Lustre-discuss] Windows client for lustre 2.0

2010-09-01 Thread Brian O'Connor
I seem to remember that the Windows Client was going to be released with V2.0 Is this still active Brian O'Connor --- SGI Consulting Email: bri...@sgi.com, Mobile +61 417 746 452 Phone: +61 3 9963 1900, Fax: +61 3 9963

[Lustre-discuss] remote volume mirroring

2009-06-29 Thread Brian O'Connor
to sync a production and remote DR lustre cluster? I seem to remember that even if this works I'll only be able to mount the lustre volumes on the remote site if I use the same IP numbers in everything. Are there any other hardware dependancies that would stop an active block level lustre