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<title xml:id="benchmarkingtests.title">Benchmarking Lustre Performance (Lustre I/O Kit)</title>
<para>This chapter describes the Lustre I/O kit, a collection of I/O benchmarking tools for a Lustre cluster, and PIOS, a parallel I/O simulator for Linux and Solaris. It includes:</para>
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/proc/scsi/sg/allow_dio = 1
/sys/module/ib_srp/parameters/srp_sg_tablesize = 255
/sys/block/sdN/queue/scheduler</screen>
+ <note>
+ <para>Recommended schedulers are <emphasis role="bold">deadline</emphasis> and <emphasis
+ role="bold">noop</emphasis>. The scheduler is set by default to <emphasis role="bold"
+ >deadline</emphasis>, unless it has already been set to <emphasis role="bold"
+ >noop</emphasis>.</para>
+ </note>
</section>
<section remap="h3">
<title>Running sgpdd_survey</title>