I think Amrik is planning to use glusterfs, and describes the problem he is experiencing with his current cluster (filesystem) configuration. But I may have misunderstood Sebastien. Anand Avati a écrit : > Amrik, > can you send me your config files of both server and client? > > regards, > avati > > On 5/4/07, Amrik Singh <asingh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> We are hoping that glusterfs would help us in the particular problem >> that we are facing with our cluster. We have a visual search application >> that runs on a cluster with around 300 processors. These compute nodes >> run a search for images that are hosted on an NFS server. In certain >> circumstances all these compute nodes are sending requests for query >> images at extremely high rates (20-40 images per second). When 300 nodes >> send 20-40 requests per second for these images, the NFS server just >> can't cope with it and we start seeing a lot of retransmissions and a >> very high wait time on the server as well as on the nodes. The images >> are sized at around 2MB each. >> >> With the current application we are not in a position where we can >> quickly change the way things are being done so we are looking for a >> file system that can handle this kind of situation. We tried glusterfs >> with the default settings but we did not see any improvement. Is there a >> way to tune glusterfs to handle this kind of situation. >> >> I can provide more details about our setup as needed. >> >> >> thanks >> >> -- >> Amrik Singh >> Idée Inc. >> http://www.ideeinc.com >> Sebastien LELIEVRE slelievre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Services to ISP TBS-internet http://www.TBS-internet.com/
