Re: [CentOS] High memory needs

2012-10-01 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
Anyone using VIRT to make decisions about resource utilization is completely ignorant of its function. I agree. I don't understand why Sun Grid Engine does exactly that. I posted a full explanation of this problem and the solution we used here:

Re: [CentOS] High memory needs [SOLVED]

2012-09-28 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
I finally found a solution to our problem. I think some people running like us a combination CentOS 64 bits\Sun Grid Engine, could encounter the same situation. Here is a detailed explanation, hope it can be useful to someone! The file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive is a memory-mapped file used

Re: [CentOS] High memory needs [SOLVED]

2012-09-28 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
did you test something like this? ls -al /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 3 12:35 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive - /dev/null Didn't test it. I thought that at least the languages set to be used must be accessible. Jeremie -- LF

Re: [CentOS] High memory needs

2012-09-27 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
and VIRT goes beyond 100MB for it. I understand it may not be very precise, however I still don't understant the difference compared to other x64 ditributions, under CentOS the value is 7 times higher! 2012/9/27 Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com: On 09/26/2012 09:14 AM, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste wrote

[CentOS] High memory needs

2012-09-26 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
Dear All, We recently reinstalled our computing cluster. We were using CentOS 5.3 (32 bits). It is now CentOS 6.3 (64 bits), installed from the CentOS 6.2 x64 CD, then upgraded to 6.3. We have some issues with the memory needs of our running jobs. They require much more than before, it may be

Re: [CentOS] High memory needs

2012-09-26 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
Hm, interesting suggestion. But didn't change anything. :( Thanks anyway, Jérémie 2012/9/26 Adrian Sevcenco adrian.sevce...@cern.ch: On 09/26/12 19:14, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste wrote: Dear All, Hi! We recently reinstalled our computing cluster. We were using CentOS 5.3 (32 bits

Re: [CentOS] High memory needs

2012-09-26 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
...@5-cent.us wrote: Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste wrote: Python script: Avg Min Max 32 bits8500 5004 11132 64 bits32800 3 36336 8500 * 2 = 17000 5004 * 2 = 10007 11132 * 2 = 22264 So that ranges from 2-2.5 larger. Huh? 3*8500=25500

Re: [CentOS] stupid bash question

2012-08-15 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
I gess you could also avoid the expension with: if test -n $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name \$NAME\ -print -quit) 2012/8/15 Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com: On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Craig White wrote: the relevant snippet is... NAME=*.mov cd $IN if test -n $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name $NAME -print