[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5 MDS problem?

Johnlya johnlya at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 19:45:24 PDT 2008


> 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.
Please tell me how to set "Adaptive Timeouts".  Does it use command
"lctl set_timeout"?
Thank you!

> > If a subset of clients flood lustre with I/O, can this affect the
> > performance or state of the other clients.
If a subset of clients flood lustre with I/O, does it cause other
clients not to work?

On Thu, 2008-07-10, at 11:17 PM, "Brian J. Murrell"
<Brian.Murr... at Sun.COM> wrote:
> 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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