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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">First, let me say Happy Thanksgiving to those of us in the US and to those beyond, well, it's a still happy day seeing we're still above ground!
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Now, what I have to discuss isn't anything extreme so don't skip the turkey for this, but lately, on a few of our compute GPFS client nodes, we've been noticing high CPU usage by the mmfsd process and are wondering why.
Here's a sample:</p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">[~]# top -b -n 1 | grep mmfs</p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>PID USER<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>PR<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>NI<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>VIRT<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RES<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>SHR S<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>%CPU %MEM <span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>TIME+ COMMAND</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">231898 root <span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>0 -20 14.508g 4.272g<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>70168 S<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>93.8<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>6.8<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>69503:41 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: rgb(189, 49, 27);"><b>mmfs</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">d</span></p>
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</span>4161 root <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>0 -20<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>121876 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>9412 <span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>1492 S <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>0.0<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span>0.0 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>0:00.22 run</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: rgb(189, 49, 27);"><b>mmfs</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Obviously, this behavior was likely triggered by a not-so-convenient user job that in most cases is long finished by the time we investigate. Nevertheless, does anyone have an idea why this might be happening? Any thoughts
on preventive steps even?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">This is GPFS v4.2.3 on Redhat 7.4, btw...</p>
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