Originally, I was having lots of Out of Memory issues with pvfs I/O, but a patch around 1.7.2 fixed them for me. This last one that I caught, the ram usage was less than 25% when it spontaneously rebooted.
--Jim On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Emmanuel Florac<[email protected]> wrote: > Le Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:32:23 -0700 vous écriviez: > >> I believe its pvfs, as normally all that's going on >> when it reboots is I/O to the pvfs volume (normally something like >> tarring, g/bzip'ing something, or a lot of copy/moves). > > I had some similar problems once and they actually were memory related. > I've setup some more swap and it was much better afer that. The pvfs2 > server process may suck up tons of RAM when writing lots of files using > the kernel interface. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------- > Emmanuel Florac www.intellique.com > -------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
