Sorry for my fast ( and not well thought) answer, before. You obviously are correct, there is no relation between the setting of maxFilesToCache, and the

fileCacheMem     38359956 k  = 11718554 * 3352 bytes (inode size 512 + 2840)

usage. it is rather a statement of how many metadata may fit in the remaining structures outside the pagepool. this value does not change at all, when you modify your mFtC setting.

There is a really good presentation by Tomer Perry on the User Group meetings, referring about memory footprint of GPFS under various conditions.

In your case, you may very well hit the CES nodes memleak you just pointed out.

Sorry for my hasty reply earlier ;)

Achim



From:        Stijn De Weirdt <[email protected]>
To:        [email protected]
Date:        09/05/2019 16:48
Subject:        Re: [gpfsug-discuss] advanced filecache math
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seems like we are suffering from
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IJ12737

as these are ces nodes, we susepcted something wrong the caches, but it
looks like a memleak instead.

sorry for the noise (as usual you find the solution right after sending
the mail ;)

stijn

On 5/9/19 4:38 PM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
> hi achim,
>
>> you just misinterpreted the term fileCacheLimit.
>> This is not in byte, but specifies the maxFilesToCache setting :
> i understand that, but how does the fileCacheLimit relate to the
> fileCacheMem number?
>
>
>
> (we have a 32GB pagepool, and mmfsd is using 80GB RES (101 VIRT), so we
> are looking for large numbers that might explain wtf is going on
> (pardon my french ;)
>
> stijn
>
>>
>> UMALLOC limits:
>>      bufferDescLimit      40000 desired    40000
>>      fileCacheLimit  4000 desired     4000   <=== mFtC
>>      statCacheLimit  1000 desired     1000   <=== mSC
>>      diskAddrBuffLimit      200 desired      200
>>
>> # mmfsadm dump config | grep -E "maxFilesToCache|maxStatCache"
>>     maxFilesToCache 4000
>>     maxStatCache 1000
>>
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
>>
>> *Achim Rehor*
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>> From: Stijn De Weirdt <[email protected]>
>> To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]>
>> Date: 09/05/2019 16:21
>> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] advanced filecache math
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>>
>> hi all,
>>
>> we are looking into some memory issues with gpfs 5.0.2.2, and found
>> following in mmfsadm dump fs:
>>
>>  >     fileCacheLimit     1000000 desired  1000000
>> ...
>>  >     fileCacheMem     38359956 k  = 11718554 * 3352 bytes (inode size 512 + 2840)
>>
>> the limit is 1M (we configured that), however, the fileCacheMem mentions
>> 11.7M?
>>
>> this is also reported right after a mmshutdown/startup.
>>
>> how do these 2 relate (again?)?
>>
>> mnay thanks,
>>
>> stijn
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