[Fwd: Re: [Swift-devel] Re: swift-falkon problem... plots to explain plateaus...]
Mihael Hategan
hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Mar 24 13:03:12 CDT 2008
> Its due to both. wrapper.sh fetches the app script from nfs which
> fetches the app from nfs. then wrapper.sh does its setup, which causes
> more (synchronous) nfs activity, then the app output is copied, then
> fetched back to the run directory.
>
> All this is dominated I suspect by nfs request overhead, most of which
> is not data transfer.
>
> There's really nothing to discuss regarding this until I get some data
> from tests.
As far as I can remember, Ben added fairly comprehensive logging to the
wrapper. That may shed some light on the issue.
Mihael
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