Thanks for the explanation. I think it is OK for my case then sine only several handred MB RSS is used by slurmctld.
在 2013-06-26三的 03:46 -0700，Bjørn-Helge Mevik写道： > Hongjia Cao <[email protected]> writes: > > > I have encountered that slurmctld uses more than 20GB of virtual memory. > > But the RSS is less than 1GB. I am not sure whether this is OK or there > > is some leakage. > > On Linux boxes with newer versions of glibc, slurmctld (as well as any > other process that uses a lot of threads) will "use" a lot of VMEM. > There was a change in glibc 2.something (I think it was) in how VMEM is > allocated for threads. For instance, our slurmctld right now "uses" 16 > GiB VMEM, but only 117 MiB RSS. >
