[Beowulf] Help with inconsistent network performance

[stephen mulcahy]

Brendan Moloney wrote:
> Any input on things to check would be greatly appreciated.

It might be useful to run some tools like dstat, top/htop, vmstat and 
iostat while performing the rendering and summarise any behaviour which 
co-incides with the hiccups.

Have you ganglia on your cluster? You might notice system resource 
spikes which co-incide with your hiccups.

-stephen

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