[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5 MDS problem?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:12 -0400, Jeff Blasius wrote:
> Given the first question, I think they're asking:
> If a subset of clients flood lustre with I/O, can this affect the
> performance or state of the other clients.

Ahhh.  Good catch.

> If that's the question, then Yes. You need to expand lustre to handle
> the required work load.

Indeed, absolutely.

A feature (disabled by default) in 1.6.5 called Adaptive Timeouts tries
to deal with these load issues more dynamically.  It has and continues
to undergo very large scale testing and will be enabled by default in an
upcoming release.  Perhaps 1.8.

b.

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