How to tell when a job is swapping?
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Jeff Layton jeffrey.b.layton at lmco.comTue Feb 19 06:23:25 PST 2002
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Good morning, For a while now I've been checking if a job is swapping on our clusters using bWatch. The nodes are dual CPU boxes and we run two MPI processes per node. I usually look at the load on the nodes to see if it is above 3.0 (sometimes our code will peak out at about 2.3) and I look at the free swap space number (bWatch just cats the /proc/meminfo file). I usually assume that if the free swap space falls below the maximum and load starts climbing that the node is swapping. However, when I talk to the user, he states that the code is running fine and the timing numbers are where they should be. So, I'm obviously interpreting something incorrectly (unless the job is really swapping but for some reason performance is unaffected). Does someone give me a could way to check if a job is swapping? Maybe a URL? TIA, Jeff
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