Re: [BLAST_ANAWARE] oh yes, buds are slow

From: Tancredi Botto (tancredi@lns.mit.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 19:40:42 EDT


sorry, I had to reboot all machines eventually.. should be all
set. Could not remount /scratch/bud24

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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Tancredi Botto wrote:

> > not that I did not mention "according to nominal performance".... > fortunately there is an easy temporary solution > > I ran my little benchmark on bud19 (root -l -b -q charge.C ####) > > _ the becnhmark was from spud8 : took 61 s > > _ from bud19, all /net/spuds mounted: took 204 s > > _ removed all /net/spuds and the /dblast07 nfs mount: took 27 s !! > > The temporary solution is to only mount /net/data/4, and bud24 on the > buds. Then they are ~2 times faster as you would expect. You can > still access the analysis/data directories (as I did in the above > benchmark). I have just done the change on all machines > > Note: I tried also experimenting with different nfs options (i.e. "soft" > instead or "hard" mounts). We can also play with allowing also "explicit > mounts" with the user,noauto option but over time that may build to the > same problems seen above since you need to umount on edisk, before > mounting another (I guess it will be the way to go...) > > >



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