This test has failed rarely on master as in the past, which is why it is marked "error_ignore".
That said, it does appear that this is a steady regression on orion. I don't think this is a blocker for orion_head_sync, but we'll need to understand why the OST pools performance is significantly impacted.
More instances on Lustre b2_4 branch:
https://maloo.whamcloud.com/test_sets/64f55a14-fd78-11e2-9fdb-52540035b04c
https://maloo.whamcloud.com/test_sets/e8d89476-ce1c-11e2-96ef-52540035b04c
https://maloo.whamcloud.com/test_sets/3f122714-c60a-11e2-9bf1-52540035b04c