On 20.06.2013 17:34, Eggert, Lars wrote:

> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
> avail memory = 8239513600 (7857 MB)

> By default, the igb driver seems to set up one queue per detected CPU. 
> Googling around, people seemed to suggest that limiting the number of queues 
> makes things work better. I can confirm that setting hw.igb.num_queues=2 
> seems to have fixed the issue. (Two was the first value I tried, maybe other 
> values other than 0 would work, too.)
> 
> In order to uphold POLA, should the igb driver maybe default to a 
> conservative value for hw.igb.num_queues that may not deliver optimal 
> performance, but at least works out of the box?

Or, better, make nmbclusters auto-tuning smarter, if any.
I mean, use more nmbclusters for machines with large amounts of memory.

Eugene Grosbein


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