On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:

> It seems that even under very light i.e. just a couple of long-running jobs 
> present load the job runner slowly, but steadily (1-3Mb per sec) grows its 
> memory consumption until it's killed by linux OOM killer.
> 
> My job runner config: http://pastebin.com/vMWDHAQm
> 
> I'm currently restarting the runner out of crontab when it is killed by OOM, 
> but it's not a sensible solution by any means.
> 
> I wonder if anyone encountered this and how it was solved.

Hi Alex,

I believe this is a leak either in pbs_python or libtorque.so.  I haven't yet 
been able to track down the culprit, so in the meantime, we simply restart the 
job runner process once it reaches a specified amount of memory usage.

--nate

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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