Re: [HPDD-discuss] Running "rm -rf" causes high MDS memory usage
by Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)
On Sep 15, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Matt Bettinger <iamatt(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> what are you using to measure the buffers and what buffers are we
> talking about specifically?
I was just using "top" to monitor the amount of memory in the buffers and caches. I also used "slabtop" to monitor the /proc/slabinfo data, and I noticed that the amount of memory used by all the slabs seemed to be much less than the amount of memory "top" reported in buffers or caches.
> Also have same lustre client but on 5.8. I can do some test tomorrow
> to confirm . We use collectl--> graphite for monitoring.
Thanks. I appreciate it.
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Rick Mohr
Senior HPC System Administrator
National Institute for Computational Sciences
http://www.nics.tennessee.edu