[Swift-user] Mystery of staging out glut

Lorenzo Pesce lpesce at uchicago.edu
Mon Dec 17 15:05:39 CST 2012


I am not sure I understand this.

I am running a job which involved a few million tasks over about 10K cores. It seems that when the swift process reaches some memory size (about 10 GB) it starts to produce a lot of stage out glut (right now I have about 5K tasks in stage out), then the number of active tasks drops and eventually I have to kill the job.

Have anyone seen a similar behavior?


This is what the screen trace looks like:

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