<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We also noticed a fair amount of CPU time accumulated by mmsysmon.py on<div class="">our diskless compute nodes. I read the earlier query, where it was answered:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></p><blockquote type="cite" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">ces == Cluster Export Services, mmsysmon.py comes from mmcesmon. It is used for managing export services of GPFS. If it is killed, your nfs/smb etc will be out of work.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Their overhead is small and they are very important. Don't attempt to kill them.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">Our question is this — we don’t run the latest “protocols", our NFS is CNFS, and our CIFS is clustered CIFS.</div><div class="">I can understand it might be needed with Ganesha, but on every node? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why in the world would I be getting this daemon running on all client nodes, when I didn’t install the “protocols" version </div><div class="">of the distribution? We have release 4.2.2 at the moment. How can we disable this?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""> — ddj</div></body></html>