[Beowulf] DMA Memory Mapping Question

[Chris Samuel]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Chris Samuel wrote:

> Through various firmware and driver tweaks (thanks to both IBM and Myrinet)
> we've gotten that limit up to almost 1GB and then we use an undocumented
> environment variable (GMPI_MAX_LOCKED_MBYTE) to say only use 248MB of that
> per process (as we've got 4 cores in each box), which we enforce through
> Torque.

On further probing it appears that those particular processes have somehow 
lost that environment variable on one node. :-(

So whilst it would be nice to be able to know how much DMA memory they are 
using we at least now know why the problem has suddenly reappeared.

cheers!
Chris
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