----- "Dave Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The reason it worries about high load is that we > > used to see processes hang trying to read from the > > IPMI device, but haven't seen that with more recent > > kernels.. > > How recent? We've seen similar trouble on Supermicros with a SuSE > 10.3 (2.6.22.17) kernel, hence doing it out-of-band, as I just posted.
I think they seemed to go away somewhere around 2.6.27 I believe. > (Sorry I basically duplicated the in-band one of yours.) It involves > the kipmi0 kernel thread going CPU-bound and sometimes getting a huge > load average from failed ipmitool instances hanging around. Sounds very much like what we were seeing on ours! cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
