[Lustre-discuss] OSS1 write performance impacted by OSS3 writes?!
Kevin Van Maren
kevin.van.maren at oracle.com
Thu Oct 28 15:36:53 PDT 2010
Dan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 4 OSSs with 4 OSTs each still running 1.6.7.2 on RHEL 4. I
> stripped files across OSTs specific to each OSS to test network
> bandwidth. Then wrote to each file from separate clients. The
> network is currently single GigE link to each OSS/client via Cisco
> 4503. Bonding 4 links to each OSS after resolving this current issue
> I hope.
>
> Here's the problem. When I start writing to OSS3 it cuts the
> performance of OSS1 in half and only achieves half of it's network
> bandwidth. Stop writing to OSS1 and 3 gets full bandwidth or vice
> versa. If I write to OSS1,2 and 4 or OSS2,3,4 all get full bandwidth.
> I've checked what OSTs the files were stripped against and looked at
> the network config. Further more collectl shows no cross traffic (if
> I had messed up file stripes). No ideas...
>
> What could cause this?
Look at your Ethernet switch.
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
> -- Sent from my Palm Pre
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