Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

[Jimmy Tang <jtang@tchpc.tcd.ie>]

Hi Alastair,

> The 2.6.16 code I have works for light use: survives some tests such as 
> bonnie, etc. 
> but hangs in large workloads: I'm debugging this, but would prefer to 
> target 2.6.17 for Etch. 
> (even if we don't get in the Etch release, I'd like to support the 
> stable kernel.) Some patches 
> ported to 2.6.17.

Out of curiousity what sort of heavy workloads are you trying out on the
system?

I'd be interested in testing the package out on a small test cluster
here as well for users who have heavy IO needs.

also is there any interest in testing these patches for 2.6.16/17 with
with the openib patches/stacks?


Jimmy.


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Jimmy Tang
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