[gpfsug-discuss] sequential I/O write - performance

[Glen Corneau]

Just a few thoughts:

We've often increased the seqDiscardThreshold in SAS on AIX GPFS implementations to much larger values ( a lot of large file sequential I/O).  With a pagepool of 64G, maybe set to 4 or 8GB?

Sequential writes from the application when spread across mutliple LUNs on the storage+Scale often do not resemble sequential writes from the storage POV.

If overrunning a disk device representation in the OS, the device queue depth is one parameter that might be expanded to offer some relief.
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Glen Corneau
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IBM Technology, North America
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@Aaron Yes, I can confirm that 2MB blocks are transfered over. @ Jan-Frode We tried to change multiple parameters, but if you know the best combination for sequential IO, please let me know. #mmlsconfig autoload no dmapiFileHandleSize 32 minReleaseLevel
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@Aaron

Yes, I can confirm that 2MB blocks are transfered over.


@ Jan-Frode

We tried to change multiple parameters, but if you know the best combination for sequential IO, please let me know.



#mmlsconfig

autoload no

dmapiFileHandleSize 32

minReleaseLevel 5.1.9.0

tscCmdAllowRemoteConnections no

ccrEnabled yes

cipherList AUTHONLY

sdrNotifyAuthEnabled yes

pagepool 64G

maxblocksize 16384K

maxMBpS 40000

maxReceiverThreads 32

nsdMaxWorkerThreads 512

nsdMinWorkerThreads 8

nsdMultiQueue 256

nsdSmallThreadRatio 0

nsdThreadsPerQueue 3

prefetchAggressiveness 2

adminMode central



/dev/fs0


@Uwe

Using iohist we found out that gpfs is overloading one dm-device (it took about 500ms to finish IOs). We replaced the „problematic“ dm-device (as we have enough drives to play with) for new one but the overloading issue just jumped to another dm-device.
We believe that this behaviour is caused by the gpfs but we are unable to locate the root cause of it.



Best,
Michal


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