lfs_migrate failure
by Arman Khalatyan
Hello,
I wondered is lfs_migrate is only for striped files?
when I run on non striped one on lustre 2.4.1 I get following error:
lfs_migrate /lustre/arm2arm/tileimg_vis.png
lfs_migrate is currently NOT SAFE for moving in-use files.
Use it only when you are sure migrated files are unused.
If emptying OST(s) that are not disabled on the MDS, new
files may use them. To prevent MDS allocating any files on
OSTNNNN run 'lctl --device %{fsname}-OSTNNNN-osc deactivate'
on the MDS.
Continue? (y/n) y
/lustre/arm2arm/tileimg_vis.png: cannot swap layouts between
/lustre/arm2arm/tileimg_vis.png and a volatile file (Operation not
permitted)
error: migrate: migrate stripe file '/lustre/arm2arm/tileimg_vis.png' failed
Thanks,
Arman.
8 years, 3 months
Are there way to force to recheck quotas on 2.4.1?
by Arman Khalatyan
Hello,
After MDT failure fsck was fixing quota errors.
Now the lfs quota -u username /lustre does not show correct number of files
per user.
Is it possible to recheck quotas for all users?
thanks,
Arman.
8 years, 3 months
Suggestions for greenfield Lustre 2.5 site: dumb or RAID HBAs?
by Anthony Alba
Hello list,
I have the opportunity for a greenfield Lustre 2.5+ site.
We only have on-site experience with 2.1.x and hw RAID ldiskfs.
A major decision point is OSS HBA dumb or RAID, and ldiskfs or ZFS; so
could you chime in on, if you had the choice for 2.5+ would you go for:
1. RAID HBAs or dumb HBAs+RAID enclosure using hw RAID ldiskfs. Would you
even consider hw RAID ZFS?
E.g., some sample hardware (as we are mostly a Dell shop)
Dell PERC+MD1200/C8000XD encl,
Dell 6Gbps SAS (dumb) HBA + MD3200 encl
2. Dumb HBAs with ZFS raidz2
E.g. Dell 6Gbps SAS (dumb) HBA + MD1200 or C8000XD
non-RAID enclosures
Thanks for you wisdom.
A. Alba
8 years, 3 months
Tools to collect performance numbers on OSS / OSTs
by Singhal, Upanshu
Hello,
Can someone please suggest some tools to collect performance numbers like IOPS on OSTs while running load from Lustre Clients?
Thanks,
-Upanshu
Upanshu Singhal
EMC Data Storage Systems, Bangalore, India.
Phone: 91-80-67375604
8 years, 3 months
Re: [HPDD-discuss] [Lustre-discuss] Can't increase effective client read cache
by Dilger, Andreas
On 2013-09-24, at 14:15, "Carlson, Timothy S" <Timothy.Carlson(a)pnnl.gov> wrote:
> I've got an odd situation that I can't seem to fix.
>
> My setup is Lustre 1.8.8-wc1 clients on RHEL 6 talking to 1.8.6 servers on RHEL 5.
>
> My compute nodes have 64 GB of memory and I have a use case where an application has very low memory usage and needs to access a few thousand files in Lustre that range from 10 to 50 MB. The files are subject to some reuse and it would be advantageous to cache as much of the data as possible. The default cache for this configuration would be 48GB on the client as that is 75% of memory. However the client never caches more than about 40GB of data according to /proc/meminfo
>
> Even if I tune the cached memory to 64GB the amount of cache in use never goes past 40GB. My current setting is as follows
>
> # lctl get_param llite.*.max_cached_mb
> llite.olympus-ffff8804069da800.max_cached_mb=64000
>
> I've also played with some of the VM tunable settings. Like running vfs_cache_pressure down to 10
>
> # vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 10
>
> In no case do I see more than about 35GB of cache being used. To do some more testing on this I created a bunch (40) 2G files in Lustre and then copied them to /dev/null on the client. While doing this I ran the fincore tool from http://code.google.com/p/linux-ftools/ to see if the file was still in cache. Once about 40GB of cache was used, the kernel started to drop files from the cache even though there was no memory pressure on the system.
>
> If I do the same test with files local to the system, I can fill all the cache to about 61GB before files start getting dropped.
>
> Is there some other Lustre tunable on the client that I can twiddle with to make more use of the local memory cache?
This might relate to the number of DLM locks cached on the client. Of the locks get cancelled for some reason (e.g. memory pressure on the server, old age) then the pages covered by the locks will also be dropped.
You could try disabling the lock LRU and specify some large static number of locks (for testing, I wouldn't leave this set for production systems with large numbers of clients):
lctl set_param ldlm.namespaces.*.lru_size=10000
To reset it to dynamic DLM LRU size management set a value of "0".
Cheers, Andread
8 years, 4 months
Have you contributed to the Lustre Manual lately?
by Dilger, Andreas
The Lustre Filesystem Operations Manual is an important resource for the
Lustre Community for both new and experienced Lustre users to find out
more information about how to use and maintain a Lustre filesystem.
Unfortunately, while there are ongoing efforts to improve the manual over
the past few years it has not had the full-time care and attention that it
really needs to be kept up-to-date. Some sections of the manual were
written many years ago and need updates to the technical content (e.g.
updated examples and/or output from commands), others need to be expanded
with more detail.
Unlike in years past, the Lustre 2.x manual XML sources have been open for
direct user contributions through the Intel Git/Gerrit repository (the
same one used for managing the Lustre 2.x code) at
git://git.whamcloud.com/doc/manual.
If you want to contribute to the Lustre Community, but are not interested
in writing Lustre code, this is an opportunity for you. If you have ever
used the Lustre manual, but found a problem with it or wanted to improve
it, this is relatively easy to do.
Known issues and improvements to the manual (both in progress, or looking
for contributors) can be found at:
https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LUDOC
Details on how to contribute to the manual are available at:
https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Making+changes+to+the+Lustre+Manual
Thank you for your consideration and contributions.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Lustre Software Architect
Intel High Performance Data Division
8 years, 4 months
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8 years, 4 months
Strange issue with MDS server (lustre 1.8.8)
by Kurt Strosahl
All,
I'm encountering some odd behavior with my lustre file system. It looks like the MDT is briefly losing contact with OSTs (this does not seem confined to a specific OSS, and I've found some OSSs that have OSTs that don't seem to be "flickering"). The server mounting the MDT (and the MDS) is showing an excpetionally high load, and the lustre file system itself still appears responsive to clients (I can write to it, lfs df / df seem to be working properly). A further piece of the puzzle is that several OSTs that were active are now showing as inactive from the mdt (via the lctl dl command).
I'm running lustre 1.8.8 on all of the lustre file servers with Centos 5.3 / Centos 5.5 (problem occurs on 5.3 and 5.5 servers). We are also using an IB network to push the data around.
Thank you,
Kurt J. Strosahl
System Administrator
Scientific Computing Group, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
8 years, 4 months
Trouble to migrate files from deactivated ost
by Arman Khalatyan
Hello,
We are removing one ost from the lustre 2.4.1.
Only few files are written on that OST without any striping.
First we dectivate on MDS
lctl --device 15 deactivate
then on client:
lfs_migrate -y
/lustre/arm2arm/Projects/EFRE-TESTS/RAID6TEST/arman-io-stresstest/stresstest/run_test.sh
/lustre/arm2arm/Projects/EFRE-TESTS/RAID6TEST/arman-io-stresstest/stresstest/run_test.sh:
cannot swap layouts between
/lustre/arm2arm/Projects/EFRE-TESTS/RAID6TEST/arman-io-stresstest/stresstest/run_test.sh
and a volatile file (Operation not permitted)
error: migrate: migrate stripe file
'/lustre/arm2arm/Projects/EFRE-TESTS/RAID6TEST/arman-io-stresstest/stresstest/run_test.sh'
failed
What does it mean "a volatile file"?
Thanks,
Arman.
8 years, 4 months
