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NFS Performance (was Re: [Beowulf] GPFS on Linux (x86))

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Brent Franks brentasterisk at gmail.com
Fri Sep 15 07:32:36 PDT 2006


On 9/15/06, Chris Samuel <csamuel at vpac.org> wrote:
> Wild guess - NFS servers are running RHEL and using ext3 ?

Exactly.

> We used to have that problem with the 2 NFS servers for our 90 node cluster
> till we dumped RHEL,  switched to Fedora and XFS and all our horrible NFS
> problems went away.

Nice, any sort of comparison data in terms of differences in
throughput achieved?

Additionally, are you writing your journal to a different partition?

Thanks,

- Brent



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