Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all memory

2018-02-25 Thread Sven Oehme
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Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all memory

2018-02-25 Thread Aaron Knister
trum Scale (GPFS) team. From: Aaron Knister <aaron.s.knis...@nasa.gov> To: <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Date: 02/22/2018 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all memory Sent by:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumsca

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all memory

2018-02-25 Thread Aaron Knister
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Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all memory

2018-02-23 Thread Stijn De Weirdt
a.gov> > To: <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> > Date: 02/22/2018 10:30 PM > Subject:Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all > memory > Sent by:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org > > > > This is also interesti

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all memory

2018-02-23 Thread IBM Spectrum Scale
permits and should not be used for priority messages to the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team. From: Aaron Knister <aaron.s.knis...@nasa.gov> To: <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Date: 02/22/2018 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all memory

2018-02-22 Thread Aaron Knister
This is also interesting (although I don't know what it really means). Looking at pmap run against mmfsd I can see what happens after each step: # baseline 7fffe4639000 59164K 0K 0K 0K 0K ---p [anon] 7fffd837e000 61960K 0K 0K 0K 0K ---p [anon]

[gpfsug-discuss] pagepool shrink doesn't release all memory

2018-02-22 Thread Aaron Knister
I've been exploring the idea for a while of writing a SLURM SPANK plugin to allow users to dynamically change the pagepool size on a node. Every now and then we have some users who would benefit significantly from a much larger pagepool on compute nodes but by default keep it on the smaller