Scratch storage on Bamboo extremely slow

I’m currently running an interactive job on Bamboo (cpu023, shared-cpu) and the scratch partition is slow enough as to be unusable. Operations like ls take ~1-2s to perform, and a file transfer to local /tmp/ is proceeding at about 4-5 MB/s maximum speed.

Is there an issue with BeeGFS for that file system?

Thanks!
Berk

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I was about to report the same. I did time ls and

real    0m38.679s
user    0m0.003s
sys     0m0.016s

Hi, @Berk.Gercek and @Lucille.Delisle1

I think the issue was due to high load on the storage as for now it seems ok to me:

I copied a 12GB file from scratch to /tmp in 23 sec which is not exceptional but not bad:)

(bamboo)-[sagon@cpu001 scratch]$ time cp mybigfile /tmp

real    0m23.624s
user    0m0.013s
sys     0m6.796s
(bamboo)-[sagon@cpu001 scratch]$ ls -lah mybigfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 sagon unige 12G Jun 27 09:14 mybigfile

Can you confirm it is working for you as expected? Unfortunately it is hard to diagnose such performance issue because it is highly dependent on the users workload.

Hi @Yann.Sagon ,
I confirm that this morning everything is fine.
Thanks