[Gluster-users] hanging "df" (3.1, infiniband)

[Lana Deere]

Tomorrow I will try to install either the OFED 1.5.1 or perhaps the
Mellanox variant and see if I can get further with the IB stuff, then
come back to Gluster.

Thanks Joe and Craig for all the help today!

.. Lana (lana.deere at gmail.com)






On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Joe Landman
<landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/2010 07:41 PM, Lana Deere wrote:
>>
>> I believe it's OFED but I suppose I'm not certain.  The initial
>> installation of these systems included IB support which was installed
>> by the vendor along with the OS (CentOS 5.5) and which was turned off
>> ("chkconfig openibd off") when delivered.
>>
>> I don't seem to have an "ofed_info" command.  Also, my openib.conf is
>
> Thats the giveaway ... This uses the Centos 5.5 IB support.  I don't know if
> the drivers in it were updated for your card.  That ib_uverbs is loaded, but
> it doesn't support verbs suggests that the driver may not be fully
> functional.
>
> The IB in Centos 5.x is somewhere between 1.3 and 1.4 OFED.  If you can get
> the openfabrics stack on there, say 1.5.1, you should be fine (1.5.2 has
> released, but we haven't played much with it yet, apart from some Qlogic
> cards, which didn't like it much).
>
>
>
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