On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 09:01:15PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 22/12/2011 20:45 Steve Kargl said the following: > > I've used schedgraph to look at the ktrdump output. A jpg is > > available at http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/freebsd/ktr.jpg > > This shows the ping-pong effect where here 3 processes appear to be > > using 2 cpus while the remaining 2 processes are pinned to their > > cpus. > > I'd recommended enabling CPU-specific background colors via the menu in > schedgraph for a better illustration of your findings. > > NB: I still don't understand the point of purposefully running N+1 CPU-bound > processes. >
The point is that this is a node in a HPC cluster with multiple users. Sure, I can start my job on this node with only N cpu-bound jobs. Now, when user John Doe wants to run his OpenMPI program should he login into the 12 nodes in the cluster to see if someone is already running N cpu-bound jobs on a given node? 4BSD gives my jobs and John Doe's jobs a fair share of the available cpus. ULE does not give a fair share and if you read the summary file I put up on the web, you see that it is fairly non-deterministic on when a OpenMPI run will finish (see the mean absolute deviations in the table of 'real' times that I posted). There is the additional observation in one of my 2008 emails (URLs have been posted) that if you have N+1 cpu-bound jobs with, say, job0 and job1 ping-ponging on cpu0 (due to ULE's cpu-affinity feature) and if I kill job2 running on cpu1, then neither job0 nor job1 will migrate to cpu1. So, one now has N cpu-bound jobs running on N-1 cpus. Finally, my initial post in this email thread was to tell O. Hartman to quit beating his head against a wall with ULE (in an HPC environment). Switch to 4BSD. This was based on my 2008 observations and I've now wasted 2 days gather additional information which only re-affirms my recommendation. -- Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"