[Lustre-discuss] Performance problems with Lustre 1.6.1

[Kilian CAVALOTTI]

Hi Juan,

On Monday 01 October 2007 03:56:33 pm Juan Piernas Canovas wrote:
> I have set up a small Lustre file system with 1 MDS and 8 OSS/OST.
> The particularity of our system is that every OSS is also a client of
> the file system (there are 8 clients altogether).

I'm not sure if that's related, but I recall reading in the Lustre 
manual that running a client and an OST on the same machine could lead 
to a whole range of unexpected results, including deadlocks:
http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/DynamicHTML-26-1.html#wp1072362

Cheers,
-- 
Kilian