There are some TCP tuning parameters you can change in the
/etc/sysctl.conf. Adding these made a noticeable improvement for us.
Also, if you use any NFS, set your rsize and wsize = 32768 (NFS mount
options) in a Linux 2.6 kernel. The noatime mount option appears to
work well. We have abandoned ext3 for filesystems > 1Tb in favor of
reiserfs and jfs. These other filesytems appear to give better
performance in a cluster environment. If you use gfs as the filesystem,
then the above point is moot.
http://dsd.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html
http://www.nren.nasa.gov/tcp_tuning.html
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s05.html
Kadlecsik Jozsef wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Leandro Dardini wrote:
What can we do, besides increasing the RGs size?
Is there any kernel parameter, which could be tuned (say vm
parameters)?
Would it help to set higher MTU values for openais? (But how
could one set it?)
To speed up things a little, try mounting your partition without atime
(noatime). This will prevent contention locking on directory.
It's already done, I forgot to mention.
Best regards,
Jozsef
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