[Lustre-discuss] Performance dropoff for a nearly full Lustre file system

Bob Ball ball at umich.edu
Wed Jan 14 12:55:13 PST 2015


In my memory, it is not recommended to run Lustre more than 90% full.

bob

On 1/14/2015 2:43 PM, Mike Selway wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>                I’m looking for experiences for what has been observed 
> to happen (performance drop offs, severity of drops, partial/full 
> failures, …) when an operational Lustre File System has been almost 
> “filled”… percentages of interest are in the range from say 80% to 
> 99%. Multiple responses appreciated.
>
> Also, comments from anyone who has implemented a Robin Hood approach, 
> about how they worked to avoid performance drop offs of a “near full” 
> file system by “archiving and releasing data blocks” to 
> auto-reconstruct continuous data areas.
>
> Thanks!
> Mike
>
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