Re: [gpfsug-discuss] memory needed for gpfs clients

2020-12-01 Thread Renata Maria Dart
mPct to ensure you have a reasonable and understood limit for >how much memory mmfsd will use. > >Best, >Chris > >On 12/1/20, 1:32 PM, "gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org on behalf of >Renata Maria Dart" ren...@slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > >Hi, some of ou

[gpfsug-discuss] memory needed for gpfs clients

2020-12-01 Thread Renata Maria Dart
Hi, some of our gpfs clients will get stale file handles for gpfs mounts and it seems to be related to memory depletion. Even after the memory is freed though gpfs will continue be unavailable and df will hang. I have read about setting vm.min_free_kbytes as a possible fix for this, but wasn't

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-02-20 Thread Renata Maria Dart
Hi Frederick, ours is a physics research lab with a mix of new eperiments and ongoing research. While some users embrace and desire the latest that tech has to offer and are actively writing code to take advantage of it, we also have users running older code on data from older experiments which

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-02-20 Thread Renata Maria Dart
Thanks very much for your response Carl, this is the information I was looking for. Renata On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, Carl Zetie - ca...@us.ibm.com wrote: >To reiterate what?s been said on this thread, and to reaffirm the official IBM >position: > > > * Scale 4.2 reaches EOS in September 2020,

[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-02-19 Thread Renata Maria Dart
Hi, I understand gpfs 4.2.3 is end of support this coming September. The support page https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#linux__rhelkerntable indicates that gpfs version 5.0 will not run on rhel6 and is unsupported. 1. Is there extended support

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfs client cluster, lost quorum, ccr issues

2018-07-10 Thread Renata Maria Dart
ase contact >1-800-237-5511 in the United States or your local IBM Service Center in >other countries. > >The forum is informally monitored as time permits and should not be used >for priority messages to the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team. > > > >From: Renata Maria Dart >To:

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfs client cluster, lost quorum, ccr issues

2018-06-27 Thread Renata Maria Dart
>From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org >[gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org] on behalf of Renata Maria Dart >[ren...@slac.stanford.edu] >Sent: 27 June 2018 19:09 >To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org >Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfs client cluster, lost quorum, ccr issues

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfs client cluster, lost quorum, ccr issues

2018-06-27 Thread Renata Maria Dart
Hi, any gpfs commands fail with: root@ocio-gpu01 ~]# mmlsmgr get file failed: Not enough CCR quorum nodes available (err 809) gpfsClusterInit: Unexpected error from ccr fget mmsdrfs. Return code: 158 mmlsmgr: Command failed. Examine previous error messages to determine cause. The two "working"

[gpfsug-discuss] gpfs client cluster, lost quorum, ccr issues

2018-06-27 Thread Renata Maria Dart
Hi, we have a client cluster of 4 nodes with 3 quorum nodes. One of the quorum nodes is no longer in service and the other was reinstalled with a newer OS, both without informing the gpfs admins. Gpfs is still "working" on the two remaining nodes, that is, they continue to have access to the