[Lustre-discuss] node has high load

Andreas Dilger
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:40:39 -0000

On Jan 15, 2008  15:28 -0500, Brock Palen wrote:
> We just started using lustre in production.  One of the login nodes
> where we have been actively using lustre has been building up a high
> load, its up to 12 right now, is this something that happens?  Is
> there a way to check to see if the client on that login node is
> trying to do something thats not available?

"High load" means lots of process marked in "running" state.
Doing
"ps auxww" and looking for processes with stat "R" or
"D", or "top"
should show you which processes are producing the load.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.