[Lustre-discuss] Extremely high load and hanging processes on a Lustre client

2010-03-05 Thread Götz Waschk
Hi everyone, I have a critical problem on one of my Lustre client machines running Scientific Linux 5.4 and the patchless Lustre 1.8.2 client. After a few days of usage, some processes like cp and kswapd0 start to use 100% CPU. Only 180k of swap space are in use though. Processes that try to acce

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Extremely high load and hanging processes on a Lustre client

2010-03-05 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Friday 05 March 2010, Götz Waschk wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a critical problem on one of my Lustre client machines running > Scientific Linux 5.4 and the patchless Lustre 1.8.2 client. After a > few days of usage, some processes like cp and kswapd0 start to use > 100% CPU. Only 180k of s

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Extremely high load and hanging processes on a Lustre client

2010-03-08 Thread Götz Waschk
2010/3/6 Bernd Schubert : >> Do you have any idea what to test before rebooting the machine? > Don't reboot, but disable LRU resizing. > for i in /proc/fs/lustre/ldlm/namespaces/*; do echo 800 > ${i}/lru_size; done > At least that helped all the time before when we had that problem. I hoped it > wo