[Swift-devel] Coaster socket issue

Michael Wilde wilde at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Mar 28 21:30:05 CDT 2012


Does
  ls -l /proc/14598/fd
tell you anything more?

Sounds to me like swift is trying to qstat a qsub'ed job. Perhaps some incompatibility between the SGE provider and the local SGE release? We've seen similar things with older (or newer) SGE releases. (I think you in fact diagnosed some of these issues as I recall...)

- Mike

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Kelly" <davidk at ci.uchicago.edu>
> To: "Jonathan Monette" <jonmon at mcs.anl.gov>
> Cc: "swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu Devel" <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 9:11:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Coaster socket issue
> The limit here seems to be 1024.
> 
> Just curious, what happens when you run 'lsof -u jonmon'? For me, I
> see lines like this that grow over time:
> 
> java 14589 dkelly 220r FIFO 0,6 601514288 pipe
> java 14589 dkelly 221r FIFO 0,6 601514581 pipe
> java 14589 dkelly 222w FIFO 0,6 601514852 pipe
> java 14589 dkelly 223r FIFO 0,6 601514582 pipe
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jonathan Monette" <jonmon at mcs.anl.gov>
> > To: "David Kelly" <davidk at ci.uchicago.edu>
> > Cc: "swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu Devel"
> > <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:57:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Coaster socket issue
> > What is the open files limit on that machine(ulimit -n)? I have
> > never
> > witnessed this issue before so it may only appear on machines with
> > relatively low open file limits(raven has 1K but beagle has 60K).
> > This
> > is still something we should look into though.
> >
> > On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:49 PM, David Kelly wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Strange, I just ran into a similar issues tonight while running on
> > > ibicluster (SGE). I saw the "too many open files" error after
> > > sitting in the queue waiting for a job to start. I restarted the
> > > job
> > > and then periodically ran 'lsof' to see the number of java pipes
> > > increasing over time. I thought at first this might be SGE
> > > specific,
> > > but perhaps it is something else. (This was with 0.93)
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Jonathan Monette" <jonmon at mcs.anl.gov>
> > >> To: "swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu Devel"
> > >> <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:30:52 PM
> > >> Subject: [Swift-devel] Coaster socket issue
> > >> Hello,
> > >> In running the SciColSim app on raven(which is a cluster similar
> > >> to
> > >> Beagle) I noticed that the app hung. It was not hung where the
> > >> hang
> > >> checker kicked in but Swift was waiting for jobs to be active but
> > >> there was none submitted to PBS. I took a look at the log file
> > >> and
> > >> noticed that I had a java.io.IOException thrown for "too many
> > >> open
> > >> files". Since I killed it I couldn't probe the run but I had the
> > >> same
> > >> run running on Beagle. Upon Mike's suggestion I took a look at
> > >> the
> > >> /proc/<pid>/fd directory. There were over 2000 sockets in the
> > >> CLOSE_WAIT state with a single message in the receive queue.
> > >> Raven
> > >> has
> > >> a limit of 1024 open files at a time while Beagle has a limit
> > >> around
> > >> 60K number of files open. I got this limit using ulimit -n.
> > >>
> > >> So my question is, why is there so many sockets waiting to be
> > >> closed?
> > >> I did some reading about the CLOSE_WAIT state and it seems this
> > >> happens when one of the ends closes there socket but the other
> > >> does
> > >> not. Is Coaster not closing the socket when a worker shuts down?
> > >> What
> > >> other information should I be looking for to help debug the
> > >> issue.
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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory




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