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<div dir="ltr">Interesting. Could you share a little more about your architecture? Is it possible to mount the fs on an NSD server and do some dd's from the fs on the NSD server? If that gives you decent performance perhaps try NSDPERF next <span>https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General+Parallel+File+System+(GPFS)/page/Testing+network+performance+with+nsdperf</span>
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<div class="null" dir="auto">On April 20, 2017 at 10:53:47 EDT, Kenneth Waegeman <kenneth.waegeman@ugent.be> wrote:<br class="null">
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<p class="null">We can do sequential writes to the filesystem at 7,8 GB/s total , which is the expected speed for our current storage
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backend. While we have even better performance with sequential reads on raw storage LUNS, using GPFS we can only reach 1GB/s in total (each nsd server seems limited by 0,5GB/s) independent of the number of clients
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(1,2,4,..) or ways we tested (fio,dd). We played with blockdev params, MaxMBps, PrefetchThreads, hyperthreading, c1e/cstates, .. as discussed in this thread, but nothing seems to impact this read performance.
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<div class="null">I just had a similar experience from a sandisk infiniflash system SAS-attached to s single host. Gpfsperf reported 3,2 Gbyte/s for writes. and 250-300 Mbyte/s on sequential reads!! Random reads were on the order of 2 Gbyte/s.<br class="null">
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After a bit head scratching snd fumbling around I found out that reducing maxMBpS from 10000 to 100 fixed the problem! Digging further I found that reducing prefetchThreads from default=72 to 32 also fixed it, while leaving maxMBpS at 10000. Can now also read
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<div dir="ltr" class="null">fre. 17. feb. 2017 kl. 18.13 skrev Aaron Knister <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov" class="null">aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov</a>>:<br class="null">
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Well, I'm somewhat scrounging for hardware. This is in our test<br nop="gmail_msg" class="null">
environment :) And yep, it's got the 2U gpu-tray in it although even<br nop="gmail_msg" class="null">
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> This is a good one. I've got an NSD server with 4x 16GB fibre<br nop="gmail_msg" class="null">
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> the clients. I was having a really hard time getting anything resembling<br nop="gmail_msg" class="null">
> sensible performance out of it (4-5Gb/s writes but maybe 1.2Gb/s for<br nop="gmail_msg" class="null">
> reads). The back-end is a DDN SFA12K and I *know* it can do better than<br nop="gmail_msg" class="null">
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> "openssl speed -multi 16" on the nsd server to drive up the load I saw<br nop="gmail_msg" class="null">
> an almost 4x performance jump which is pretty much goes against every<br nop="gmail_msg" class="null">
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