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<div class="">My apologies - Jordan’s response had been snagged by the University's SPAM filter (I went and checked and found it after receiving your e-mail)…</div>
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<div class="">On May 4, 2017, at 12:04 PM, Stephen Ulmer <<a href="mailto:ulmer@ulmer.org" class="">ulmer@ulmer.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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Look at Jordan’s answer, he explains what significance 0 has. In short, GPFS will use one thread per core per server, so they could add to 31 quickly. ;)
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<div class="">Thanks for the info on the releases … can you clarify about pitWorkerThreadsPerNode? As I said in my original post, on all 8 NSD servers and the filesystem manager it is set to zero. No matter how many times I add zero to zero I don’t get a
value > 31! ;-) So I take it that zero has some sort of unspecified significance? Thanks…</div>
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<div class="">On May 4, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Kumaran Rajaram <<a href="mailto:kums@us.ibm.com" class="">kums@us.ibm.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<font size="3" color="red" class="">>>I’m running 4.2.2.3 on my GPFS servers (some clients are on 4.2.1.1 or 4.2.0.3 and are gradually being upgraded). What version of GPFS fixes this? With what I’m doing I need the ability to run mmrestripefs.</font><br class="">
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">GPFS version 4.2.3.0 (and above) fixes this issue and supports "sum of pitWorkerThreadsPerNode of the participating nodes (-N parameter to mmrestripefs)" to exceed 31.</font><br class="">
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">For example, if "number of nodes participating in the mmrestripefs" is 6 then adjust "mmchconfig pitWorkerThreadsPerNode=5 -N <participating_nodes>". GPFS would need to be restarted for this parameter to take effect
on the participating_nodes (verify with </font><font size="2" face="Courier New" class="">mmfsadm dump config | grep pitWorkerThreadsPerNode</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">)</font><br class="">
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<font size="3" class="">Hi Olaf, </font><br class="">
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<font size="3" class="">I’m running 4.2.2.3 on my GPFS servers (some clients are on 4.2.1.1 or 4.2.0.3 and are gradually being upgraded). What version of GPFS fixes this? With what I’m doing I need the ability to run mmrestripefs.</font><br class="">
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<font size="3" class="">It seems to me that mmrestripefs could check whether QOS is enabled … granted, it would have no way of knowing whether the values used actually are reasonable or not … but if QOS is enabled then “trust” it to not overrun the system.</font><br class="">
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the number of NSDs is more or less nonsense .. it is just the number of nodes x PITWorker should not exceed to much the #mutex/FS block<br class="">
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so far as I know.. that the code checks the number of NSDs is already considered as a defect and will be fixed / is already fixed ( I stepped into it here as well)
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ps. QOS is the better approach to address this, but unfortunately.. not everyone is using it by default... that's why I suspect , the development decide to put in a check/limit here .. which in your case(with QOS) would'nt needed
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Hi Olaf, <br class="">
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Your explanation mostly makes sense, but...<br class="">
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Failed with 4 nodes … failed with 2 nodes … not gonna try with 1 node. And this filesystem only has 32 disks, which I would imagine is not an especially large number compared to what some people reading this e-mail have in their filesystems.<br class="">
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I thought that QOS (which I’m using) was what would keep an mmrestripefs from overrunning the system … QOS has worked extremely well for us - it’s one of my favorite additions to GPFS.<br class="">
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no.. it is just in the code, because we have to avoid to run out of mutexs / block<br class="">
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reduce the number of nodes -N down to 4 (2nodes is even more safer) ... is the easiest way to solve it for now....<br class="">
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I've been told the real root cause will be fixed in one of the next ptfs .. within this year ..
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this warning messages itself should appear every time.. but unfortunately someone coded, that it depends on the number of disks (NSDs).. that's why I suspect you did'nt see it before<br class="">
but the fact , that we have to make sure, not to overrun the system by mmrestripe remains.. to please lower the -N number of nodes to 4 or better 2
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Another one of those, “I can open a PMR if I need to” type questions…<br class="">
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We are in the process of combining two large GPFS filesystems into one new filesystem (for various reasons I won’t get into here). Therefore, I’m doing a lot of mmrestripe’s, mmdeldisk’s, and mmadddisk’s.<br class="">
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Yesterday I did an “mmrestripefs <old fs> -r -N <my 8 NSD servers>” (after suspending a disk, of course). Worked like it should.<br class="">
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Today I did a “mmrestripefs <new fs> -b -P capacity -N <those same 8 NSD servers>” and got:<br class="">
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mmrestripefs: The total number of PIT worker threads of all participating nodes has been exceeded to safely restripe the file system. The total number of PIT worker threads, which is the sum of pitWorkerThreadsPerNode of the participating nodes, cannot exceed
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So there must be some difference in how the “-r” and “-b” options calculate the number of PIT worker threads. I did an “mmfsadm dump all | grep pitWorkerThreadsPerNode” on all 8 NSD servers and the filesystem manager node … they all say the same thing:<br class="">
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Hmmm, so 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 > 31?!? I’m confused...<br class="">
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