2008/11/19 Ray Muno <m...@aem.umn.edu> > Thought I would revisit this one. > > We are still having issues with this. It is not clear to me what is leaving > the user files behind in /dev/shm. > > This is not something users are doing directly, they are just compiling > their code directly with mpif90 (from OpenMPI), using various compilers. > Compilers in use are PGI, Intel, SunStudio and Pathscale. > > It looks like every job run leaves something behind in /dev/shm and it > slowly fills up. We are just clearing these out at this point. >
Could you not run ipcs with the -p flag every few minutes and try to figure out what the processes are which are leaving these? (by that I mean catch them when they are live, and the creating process is still on the system) (Currently sitting in a training course on Performance Evaluation and Tuning at SGI - so thinking on things like this)
