Clients are evicted automatically if they don't contact the server within a few minutes. The exception is if the server is not getting any traffic at all, then it might be disconnected from the network itself and doesn't evict the clients until some clients have tried to connect. Cheers, Andreas > On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:33, Thomas Roth <t.roth(a)gsi.de&gt; wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have disconnected an entire network segment of clients from an OSS (on purpose), now I'd like to > clean up a little. > Starting the OSTs on that server of course makes them trying to recover all those clients. In the log > there are then some sparse 'I think it's dead' lines, but can I get rid of them all at once? > > In some rather old manual I found something like >> lctl set_param obdfilter.OST-NAME.evict_client=uuid > The OSS (Lustre 1.8.9) seems to understand this command ("evicting ... at administrative request"). > I also did echo something to "obdfilter/NAME/exports/clear". > But neither this nor umount/mount would clear these clients from the system. > > Any other trick? > > Regards, > Thomas > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Roth > Department: Informationstechnologie > Location: SB3 1.262 > Phone: +49-6159-71 1453 Fax: +49-6159-71 2986 > > GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH > Planckstraße 1 > 64291 Darmstadt > www.gsi.de > > Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Darmstadt > Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Darmstadt, HRB 1528 > > Geschäftsführung: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Stöcker, > Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Henschel > > Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrates: Dr. Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph > Stellvertreter: Ministerialdirigent Dr. Rolf Bernhardt > > _______________________________________________ > HPDD-discuss mailing list > HPDD-discuss(a)lists.01.org > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/hpdd-discuss