John Stoffel wrote: > > I agree with all the comments which state if you swap, your dead. No > arguement there. But what about when you have a small or medium > memory job which writes a bunch of /tmp files? Do people have /tmp > local, or do they write over the network via NFS? > each of our HPC nodes has 200+ GB of disk and 80MB or less of OS, so, we keep /tmp local (sometimes striping it, depending upon need)
But, our HPC jobs typically don't make a lot of /tmp files. Most are compute and memory latency bound. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
