lustre 2.5.0 + zfs
by luka leskovec
Hello all,
i got a running lustre 2.5.0 + zfs setup on top of centos 6.4 (the kernels
available on the public whamcloud site), my clients are on centos 6.5
(minor version difference, i recompiled the client sources with the options
specified on the whamcloud site)
but now i have some problems. I cannot judge how serious it is, as the only
problems i observe are slow responses on ls, rm and tar and apart from that
it works great. i also export it over nfs, which sometimes hangs the client
on which it is exported, but i expect this is an issue related to how many
service threads i have running on my servers (old machines).
but my osses (i got two) keep spitting out these messages into the system
log:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: SPL: Showing stack for process 3264
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: Pid: 3264, comm: txg_sync Tainted:
P --------------- 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6_lustre.x86_64 #1
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: Call Trace:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa01595a7>] ?
spl_debug_dumpstack+0x27/0x40 [spl]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa0161337>] ?
kmem_alloc_debug+0x437/0x4c0 [spl]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa0163b13>] ?
task_alloc+0x1d3/0x380 [spl]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa0160f8f>] ?
kmem_alloc_debug+0x8f/0x4c0 [spl]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa02926f0>] ? spa_deadman+0x0/0x120
[zfs]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa016432b>] ?
taskq_dispatch_delay+0x19b/0x2a0 [spl]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa0164612>] ?
taskq_cancel_id+0x102/0x1e0 [spl]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa028259a>] ? spa_sync+0x1fa/0xa80
[zfs]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffff810a2431>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xb1/0xf0
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa0295707>] ?
txg_sync_thread+0x307/0x590 [zfs]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffff810560a9>] ?
set_user_nice+0xc9/0x130
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa0295400>] ?
txg_sync_thread+0x0/0x590 [zfs]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa0162478>] ?
thread_generic_wrapper+0x68/0x80 [spl]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffffa0162410>] ?
thread_generic_wrapper+0x0/0x80 [spl]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffff81096a36>] ? kthread+0x96/0xa0
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffff8100c0ca>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x20
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffff810969a0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: [<ffffffff8100c0c0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
does anyone know, is this a serious problem, or just aesthetics? any way to
solve this? any hints?
best regards,
Luka Leskovec
8 years, 1 month
Re: [HPDD-discuss] iozone and lustre
by E.S. Rosenberg
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Alexander I Kulyavtsev <aik(a)fnal.gov>wrote:
> You may want to use iozone in throughput mode, with flag -t. It will use
> multple writers/readers on the same node.
>
> If you wish to use several client nodes, use iozone cluster mode -+m . You
> need to prepare cluster file to describe file locations.
>
> Use file size , data set large enough to "flush" data after write on
> server, otherwise read rates are "too good" as data read from memory. Try
> iozone remount option. We used iozone wrapper on slave nodes and set "dont
> need" flag for the file on write so it is flushed from cache, at least
> rates changed.
>
> You may want to watch rates on network and choose time period when all
> processes do io. Iozone printout includes period when some procs finished
> and late starters doing io.
> But: network rates include retries and read aheads.
>
> This is independent of file striping.
>
Thanks Alex I'm going to try that!
Sorry that I keep bothering everyone but:
How do I troubleshoot lfs setstripe that refuses saying it's getting an
invalid argument (22)?
lfs setstripe iozone.tmp -c 10
unable to open 'iozone.tmp': Invalid argument (22)
error: setstripe: create stripe file 'iozone.tmp' failed
I have tried first touching the file, I have tried it on directories (both
existing and non-existing) but all the same result.
I am running the command as a regular user inside a folder that belongs to
the user....
Thanks,
Eli
>
> Alex
>
> On Feb 20, 2014, at 8:01 AM, "E.S. Rosenberg" <
> esr+hpdd-discuss(a)mail.hebrew.edu> wrote:
>
> > at the moment I am just using automated tests...
> >
> > (iozone -Ra -g 64G)
>
8 years, 3 months
filesystem usable space
by Javed Shaikh
hi,
specs: lustre 2.4.2 (client and server)
where can i find more info on /proc/fs/lustre/llite/blah-file-system/kbytes* files? their purpose.
basically i’m interested in getting actual usable space on filesystem … using df (or lfs df) if i add up ‘avail’ + ‘used’ space, it doesn’t give ‘size’ … so its known the filesystem is using some space for itself, but where is this info stored?
any pointers will be helpful.
thanks,
javed
8 years, 3 months
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8 years, 3 months
Lustre Survey 2014 by OpenSFS
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8 years, 4 months
FW: Time to kill off some old LND driver
by Dilger, Andreas
Forwarding this to lustre-discuss and the mxlnd author to reach the
maximum audience.
I definitely think qswlnd is beyond its useful lifetime (Quadrics is out
of business since 2009, so any systems using it are at least 5 years old),
and I believe ralnd is the same boat (it was only used for much older Cray
systems). No idea if anyone is still using mxlnd?
On 2014/02/20, 9:08 AM, "Simmons, James A." <simmonsja(a)ornl.gov> wrote:
>Currently the main LND drivers in the tree are o2iblnd, gnilnd, and
>socklnd. We also have a few drivers which are up for discussion for
>removal.
>The drivers up for discussion for removal are:
>
>qswlnd
>mxlnd
>ralnd
>
>If anyone is using these drivers speak up otherwise their removal will be
>put into the pipeline.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Lustre Software Architect
Intel High Performance Data Division
8 years, 4 months
Time to kill off some old LND driver
by Simmons, James A.
Currently the main LND drivers in the tree are o2iblnd, gnilnd, and socklnd. We also have a few drivers which are up for discussion for removal.
The drivers up for discussion for removal are:
qswlnd
mxlnd
ralnd
If anyone is using these drivers speak up otherwise their removal will be put into the pipeline.
8 years, 4 months
iozone and lustre
by E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all,
When I run the iozone benchmark on lustre it ends up only using one OSS
server, I assume this has something to do with the way it writes but I'm
not really sure where to look, at the moment I am just using automated
tests...
(iozone -Ra -g 64G)
lustre is functioning fine and when using dd from multiple machines with a
bs=102400 it uses all OSS.
Any pointers would be very welcome...
Thanks,
Eli
8 years, 4 months
filefrag and file logical order
by John Bauer
How do I determine the file logical order of the Lustre extents, given
the device logical order? Can I assume the file logical order of the
extents will follow the
the device order indicated by obdidx from the "lfs getstripe" output?
Is it safe to assume that the order of the devices as discovered in
the filefrag output is always the same as the order of the devices in
the "lfs getstripe" output? In the output below, both have the order 4,
12, 9, 1. Is this coincidental or is it a given?
% lfs getstripe -v /lus/scratch/p01940/pwrite.dat
/lus/scratch/p01940/pwrite.dat
lmm_magic: 0x0BD10BD0
lmm_seq: 0x2002dab80
lmm_object_id: 0xd1e
lmm_stripe_count: 4
lmm_stripe_size: 4194304
lmm_stripe_pattern: 1
lmm_layout_gen: 0
lmm_stripe_offset: 4
obdidx objid objid group
4 845042 0xce4f2 0
12 845220 0xce5a4 0
9 844466 0xce2b2 0
1 844523 0xce2eb 0
% /usr/sbin/filefrag -v /lus/scratch/p01940/pwrite.dat
Filesystem type is: bd00bd0
File size of /lus/scratch/p01940/pwrite.dat is 4194304000 (4096000
blocks of 1024 bytes)
ext: device_logical: physical_offset: length: dev: flags:
0: 0.. 10239: 1850072064..1850082303: 10240: 0004: network
.
115: 928768.. 1023999: 1851001856..1851097087: 95232: 0004: network
116: 0.. 16383: 14315287552..14315303935: 16384: 000c: network
.
270: 1021952.. 1023999: 14316310528..14316312575: 2048: 000c: network
271: 0.. 10239: 4657097728..4657107967: 10240: 0009: network
.
381: 945152.. 946175: 4658040832..4658041855: 1024: 0009: network
431: 978944.. 1023999: 4333852672..4333897727: 45056: 0001: network
/lus/scratch/p01940/pwrite.dat: 421 extents found
%
8 years, 4 months
