[Swift-devel] CPU usage with provider-deef

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Sat Jun 16 10:02:46 CDT 2007


Yourkit (www.yourkit.com) has free licenses for open source projects for
their profiler. Point them to a globus web page that has your name, and
they'll send you the license. Alternatively, there are other profilers
out there, and I strongly recommend using them on such issues.

Mihael

On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 10:00 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
> Nope, I think this is a different problem, or at least a subset of the
> problems we were having before.
> 
> Since we fixed the CPU utilization, and we moved to a bigger box (4
> CPUs with 2GB of memory), everything is happening in a timely fashion
> (a few ms per notification delivery throughout the experiment).  Plus,
> I believe the view is consistent (the same tasks look complete on both
> ends) between Falkon and Swift, but we are still checking on this as
> the run was made just last night for the 100 mol run.  We'll keep you
> posted with what we find.
> 
> Ioan
> 
> Ben Clifford wrote: 
> > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Ioan Raicu wrote:
> > 
> >   
> > > having problems with the 100 molecule run in MolDyn.  Its not clear where the
> > > problem is, on the surface Falkon looks fine... we are looking into where
> > > everything breaks to cause Swift to not continue with the workflow to
> > > completion!
> > >     
> > 
> > The same problem that you showed me the other day or different?
> > 
> > with 'the same problem' being that falkon thinks all the jobs are done; 
> > but that falkon's measure response time for sending completion 
> > notifications gets approximately linearly longer over time and the swift 
> > JVM uses ~100% and doesn't inidicate job completion at all after a certain 
> > period.
> > 
> > or different symptoms now?
> > 
> >   
> 
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