[gridengine users] Convert from file to bdb spooling?

[Rayson Ho]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Simon Matthews
<simon.d.matthews at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a dedicated virtual machine running on almost new server-class
> hardware. Both the qmaster and the host run Centos 6. I use KVM for
> virtualization. The qmaster is provisioned with 1GB RAM and  one processor.

Check the memory usage vsize & RSS of the qmaster - with 1 GB of RAM &
10K jobs, the qmaster can use up a large portion of that 1GB.

Rayson



> The VM exports the directory /home/gridengine which is used by all the
> execution hosts for their SGE_ROOT directory. On  the host, the VM is stored
> in a Logical volume on the host. The cpu in the qmaster is not at all busy,
> but disk i/o looks to be the bottleneck.  Host disks are Hitachi 7200rpm
> disks in a RAID-1 pair.
>
> Simon