Summary : 5.1A Cluster - Slow Performance

From: Browett, Darren (dbrowett@coquitlam.ca)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 19:16:38 EST


Thank You's to, Dr. Blinn,Thomas Sjolshagen, Paul Henderson, David Ross,
Dan Goetzman,
Bluejay Adametz, Bob Harris, Kevin Raubenoit and Vashi Manish.

My original question is included below.

In short, in a clustered environment, when you copy between two members,
the data is moved
across the interconnect. My interconnect was/is set to 10Mb/half
duplex, which is not supported.

It turns out there is a problem with the DS10, in that when you set the
second card (the interconnect)
to 100Mb/full, the cluster fails to form. I now have a warranty call in
for the DS10 to replace the motherboard.

Again thank you your responses and enlightenment on the subject.

Darren
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I am still in the process of building a test/dev 5.1a cluster with the
following configuration
 
1. A DS10 and a alphaserver 1200 as the members.
2. Both systems has the lastest firmware
3. The interconnect is ip-based and is running at 10mb half duplex.
 
The problem I am having is, a copy of a 200Mb file on one member takes 3
secs, while on the second member, it can take upto 5 minutes.

It appears to be affected by who owns the drives, using cfsmgr -c to
determine. I have verified this my moving the ownership around.
 
Has anybody else seen this problem, and if so what steps do I need to
make to rectify the problem.

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