[Linux-cluster] Too large load on the login node

[Nicolas Ferré]

Juan Ramon Martin Blanco a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Nicolas Ferré
> <nicolas.ferre at univ-provence.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We recently installed a new cluster composed of 1 login node and several
>> computing nodes running CentOS. These nodes share a GFS2 fs made of two
>> partitions.
>>
>> A strange thing is that on each node, the activity load (as monitored by the
>> 'top' command) is always larger than 1. After some googling, it seems
>> someone already reported this problem but I can't see any solution.
>> Moreover, on the login node, the load is even larger:
>> top - 11:34:17 up 1 day, 22:07,  1 user,  load average: 16.19, 16.20, 16.12
>> while there is no cpu-intensive running processes.
>>
> Which cluster-suite versions are you using?
> Look for processes in state D or R (ps aux) and paste them here.
> 

Hi,
We are running the red hat cluster manager, cman-2.0.115-1.el5. Also 
installed gfs2-utils-0.1.62-1.el5, luci-0.12.1-7.3.el5.centos.1, 
ricci-0.12.1-7.3.el5.centos.1.

About the processes, I still have to waut because we rebooted the 
cluster. The high load appears after some time.