Block Sizes

[Joe Landman]

Hi Leandro:

  I might suggest using XFS rather than ext2.  

Joe

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 07:55, Leandro Tavares Carneiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I work here with an cluster beowulf running an "home-made" parallel 
> aplication, using MPI, and we have some problems of local disk IO.
> 	The aplication needs to load a lot of data information to process the real 
> data, and the development team don't know how to make the read more eficient. 
> They wanna change the block size when reading and writing, but they don't are 
> "IO experts", and they are having a lot of trouble with it.
> 	The application is writen in Fortran, and the development team sayd in  this 
> progamming language the change of block size is not possible, but they believe 
> be possible in C. Anyone have faced this kind of problem?
> 	This application runs also in an SGI machine with 32 cpus and the problem is 
> the same...
> 	If anyone have some tip to give to me, i will be very grateful!
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> PS: Sorry about my poor english.
> 
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> Leandro Tavares Carneiro
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