You could try 'strace -p <pid>', it might give a hint in terms of where it is stuck if it is on a system call.
If it does seem to be overwhelming 2GB (strange, never had that problem before), you could try opening /opt/xcat/sbin/xcatd and changing: my $maxsslclients = 64; #default To something like 16 or so to reduce the max pending process count. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Andrew Klaassen <[email protected]>wrote: > I've tried putting a bunch of these: > > xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S", "getcredentials $client logpoint 3"); > > ...into credentials.pm to see if I can spot where it's hanging, but it > seems that only the processes that complete successfully print out their > logs, so it hasn't helped. > > Is there a better way to track down what's causing the memory usage? I'm > not a Perl programmer, so I'll need explicit instructions. > > Thanks. > > Andrew > > > --- On Wed, 9/14/11, Andrew Klaassen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Andrew Klaassen <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] rinstall memory usage > > To: "xCAT Users Mailing list" <[email protected]> > > Received: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 7:54 AM > > --- On Wed, 9/14/11, Jarrod B Johnson > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Does on particular process go away or stay? E.g. > > if you install > > > just one, does it hang? > > > > There's no hang with just one install. The server > > only hangs when there are enough processes at once to push > > it into swap. That only happens once many > > getcredentials processes start in parallel; the parts of the > > install served by apache (i.e. serving out all the packages) > > don't cause any problems. > > > > Andrew > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San > > Francisco, CA > > Learn about the latest advances in developing for the > > BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs > > & more. > > See new tools and technologies. Register for > > BlackBerry® DevCon today! > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 > > _______________________________________________ > > xCAT-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > Learn about the latest advances in developing for the > BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. > See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >
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