Hi Michael,

Ok, I switch to OrangeFS. I've a reservation on my computing platform on
Wednesday to test it, I'll come back to you if the upgrade doesn't bring any
change.
Thank you

Matthieu

2011/3/29 Michael Moore <[email protected]>

> Hi Matthieu,
>
> We have to quit meeting like this :)
>
> There were a couple server-side memory leaks fixed (I can't recall if they
> were specifically tied to write calls) since the 2.8.2 release. I would
> recommend going to the latest OrangeFS release; there are several bugs
> related to cancellation (which can occur with congestion associated with
> load testing) that are fixed in that release.
>
> If that isn't an option or you still see the behavior after upgrading, you
> can run the pvfs2-server process inside valgrind. After the server process
> stops responding (or it eats a significant amount of memory) kill the
> process and it should provide some output related to lost memory. If you can
> provide that it'll give us a starting point.
>
> Sorry for your troubles,
> Michael
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Matthieu Dorier <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm (again) encountering a bug with PVFS (2.8.2): I use it with TCP on 16
>> nodes, an MPI application is running on 38 other nodes and periodically
>> output some data using MPI-IO. The monitoring system of my PVFS nodes shows
>> that the memory cached increases at each write, until reaching 8GB (out of
>> 24GB available on the nodes). At this point the servers stop answering to
>> write requests, the application blocs in IO and eventually timeout.
>> I tried with IP over IB and with Ethernet, both show the same behavior.
>> Any idea where it comes from?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Matthieu
>>
>> --
>> Matthieu Dorier
>> ENS Cachan, Brittany (Computer Science dpt.)
>> IRISA Rennes, Office E324
>> http://perso.eleves.bretagne.ens-cachan.fr/~mdori307/wiki/
>>
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IRISA Rennes, Office E324
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