[Pvfs2-developers] PVFS2 Performance Problem -

[Sam Lang]

Hi Dave,

Does restarting the servers help?  Are the client nodes getting  
rebooted ever?
-sam

On Jul 1, 2009, at 4:43 PM, David Bonnie wrote:

> Hello all -
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out a problem with performance  
> depredation on a simple 10 node cluster.  Prior runs on the cluster  
> (before this problem manifested itself) resulted in bandwidth and  
> IOPS about 10 times higher on a small file creation workload.  Each  
> node is running as a metadata server and a data server.
>
> The problem is persistent between versions and installations of  
> PVFS2 2.8.0 and 2.8.1.  Rebooting all of the nodes didn't improve  
> anything.  The network connections (simple GigE) showed no errors or  
> dropped packets.  Using different physical disks (both SAS and FC)  
> didn't improve things.  The kernel logs didn't show anything out of  
> place nor did the pvfs2 server or client logs.  It seems like a  
> network issue but I can't seem to find anything wrong with any of  
> the connections.
>
> Has anyone seen this kind of problem before?  I seem to remember  
> something on the list before about performance suddenly dropping but  
> I can't find the message now (of course).  Any insight would be  
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Dave
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