[Lustre-discuss] Benchmarking Lustre

[Lee Ward]

We tend to use IOR from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ior-sio/

Some tests, how we used it, and data available at
http://www.cs.sandia.gov/rsiopa/

		--Lee

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 09:30 -0700, Jeremy Mann wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:21 -0500, mayur bhosle wrote:
> > hi everyone,
> >
> >                         I am a student at Georgia Tech university, and
> > as a part of a project i need to benchmark lustre file system. I did a
> > lot of searching regarding
> > the possible benchmark, but i need some advice on which benchmarks
> > would be more suitable... if any one can post a sugesstion that would
> > be really helpful.......................
> 
> In our environment, I used iozone to benchmark our bonded gigE OSTs.
> 
> iozone -t1 -i0 -il -r4m -s2g
> 
> You can change -s2g to -s1g or -s512m to benchmark reads and writes to
> different sizes of files. We tuned our system for large files since we
> place the NCBI databases in /lustre and access them directly
> within /lustre.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Mann
> jeremy at biochem.uthscsa.edu
> 
> University of Texas Health Science Center
> Bioinformatics Core Facility
> http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu
> Phone: 210-567-2672
> 
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