[Linux-cluster] Re: Slow tar

[David Teigland]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:56:49PM +0200, Kadlecsik Jozsi wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Kadlecsik Jozsi wrote:
> 
> > We have been testing GFS over AoE (over Gb Ethernet) and in our last test 
> > what we tried is to untar a 38GB file with 150000 files. The process was 
> > started two days ago and it still hasn't completed. We see that it 
> > proceeds in creating the new files and directories, but this seems to be 
> > way too slow.

This is the kind of workload where disabling the drop_count can be very
helpful, too, if you haven't already.

echo "0" >> /proc/cluster/lock_dlm/drop_count

Dave