[openib-general] opensm issues on 64 node RHEL4 cluster?

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi Troy,

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:35, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> We just moved a cluster over to the latest redhat release, and opensm
> seems to be having issues.
> 
> This is running the redhat provided kernel and opensm packages
> 
> [root at hal2004 troy]# uname -r
> 2.6.9-34.ELsmp
> [root at hal2004 troy]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
> 
> [root at hal2004 troy]# rpm -qi opensm
> Name        : opensm                       Relocations: (not
> relocatable)
> Version     : 1.0                               Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 0.4265.2.EL4                  Build Date: Thu 02 Feb 2006
> 02:24:15 PM CST
> Install Date: Tue 14 Mar 2006 12:35:09 PM CST      Build Host:
> hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com
> Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM:
> opensm-1.0-0.4265.2.EL4.src.rpm
> Size        : 1122289                          License: GPL/BSD
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 16 Feb 2006 01:45:15 PM CST, Key ID
> 219180cddb42a60e
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : https://openib.org/svn/gen2/trunk
> 
> The opensm log file is at:
> 
> http://scl.ameslab.gov/~troy/64-node-RHEL4-osm.log.gz
> 
> 
> Should I go ahead and grab the opensm from the latest subversion and see
> if it's any better?

If that is the technology preview, then using OpenSM from either OF 1.0
rc2 or from the trunk _should_ be much better especially in your
environment. Note you that if you do this, you would also need the
management libraries as well as OpenSM.

-- Hal