[Beowulf] substantial RX packet drops during Pallas over e1000 (Rocks 4.1)

2006-05-17 Thread Jeff Johnson
Greetings, Running Rocks 4.1 on a 30 node system and seeing serious RX packet loss, drops and overruns while running heavy MPI i/o over e1000. I have replaced cabling, and switches, updated e1000 drivers, ran multiple kernels, etc. No modifications seem to affect the issue. I am pursuing a

[Beowulf] WOL on nforce4 mobo under linux?

2006-05-17 Thread David Mathog
Have any of you managed to get WOL working for an nforce4 mobo running a recent linux kernel? On an A8N5X (nforce4, not ultra) motherboard WOL works fine if the machine shuts down from XP. So the BIOS and hardware are clearly set up correctly. However on poweroff from linux (2.6.16.9 using the

[Beowulf] /etc/security/limits.conf and Torque jobs

2006-05-17 Thread Bill Wichser
Kernel 2.6.9-34.ELsmp under a RH distro, DIY version Running into a problem where I need to increase the max locked memory environment variable, typically done by adding a soft and hard value to the /etc/security/limits.conf file. And so I add the lines: * soft memlock 1024 * hard

Re: [Beowulf] /etc/security/limits.conf and Torque jobs

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Hahn
So I submit a job, through Torque, and I simply execute a ulimit -l only to find that my limit is set to the original value, 32. Using a inherited from the process that started your process, probably. try restarting relevant scheduler daemons - it matters when they started up relative to

Re: [Beowulf] /etc/security/limits.conf and Torque jobs

2006-05-17 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:17:43PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: incidentally what leads you to think you should be using memory locking? The kernel.org people are insisting that kernel modules in the kernel enforce the limit, so the default has to be raised for everyone using OpenIB and InfiniPath

[Beowulf] Re: Reminder -- stream links for DCLUG meeting tonight

2006-05-17 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:03:37PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: There will be live streams available for tonight's DCLUG meeting. The meeting is scheduled to start around 19:00. Check the DCLUG site for meeting topic and speaker info: http://dclug.tux.org URLs for the live video

Re: [Beowulf] split traffic to two interfaces for two subnets

2006-05-17 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
My quick and dirty test was to do NFS reads from memory on the server (to rule out disk contention) to multiple clients. So I did this: o On client 1, 'tar cO $DATA | cat /dev/null' ~4GB of data from the server (4GB being the amount of memory in the server) to /dev/null. This caches