On 09/13/2012 07:52 AM, hol...@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de wrote: [...]
> If I set up a single machine to hammer the fileserver with IOzone I see > something like 50,000 IOPS but if all four machines are hammering the > filesystem concurrently we got it up to 180,000 IOPS. I wouldn't recommend IOzone for this sort of testing. Its not a very good load generator, and it has a tendency to report things which are not actually seen at the hardware level. I'd noticed this some years ago, when running some of our benchmark testing on these units, that an entire IOzone benchmark completed with very few activity lights going on the disks. Which suggested that the test was happily entirely cached, and I was running completely within cache. Use fio. Second, are the disks behind the NFS/ZFS server solid state, ram disk, or spinning rust? > Can anyone tell me what might be the bottleneck on the single machines? > Why can I not get 180,000 IOPS when running on a single machine. 50k IOPs x 16k/IOP = 819 MB/s 180k IOPs x 16k/IOP = 2949 MB/s (close to pragmatic limits on QDR) Some observations ... these don't sound like disk subsystems. A 15k RPM drive will give you ~300 IOPs. To get 50k IOPs, you would need 167 disk drives per machine, operating in a best performance case scenario (RAID0 or JBOD). To get 180k IOPs, you'd need 600x 15k RPM disks. I am guessing you don't have that. Are you asking why a single machine cannot fill your QDR bandwidth? I'd recommend running traces on the individual machines to see where things are getting lost. One you have the traces, post em, and see if people can help. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
