Re: [HTCondor-users] memory usage not updating

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/16/2017 2:09 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> the memory usage counter that i see in the condor_status output from
> each slot doesn't seem to be updating

Hi Michael,

Re the above, could you please be more explicit?  I.e. what is the 
actual name of the attribute in condor_status output that is not being 
updated for you?

If you are referring to the "Mem" column in the default output from 
condor_status, be aware that is the "Memory" attribute from the slot 
classad which just shows the amount of memory allocated (provisioned) to 
that slot.  So it will not change.

If you want to see the amount of memory actually being utilized by a 
job, you will want to look at the MemoryUsage attribute in the job 
classad via the condor_q (or condor_history) command, as by default the 
MemoryUsage attribute is a property of the job, not the slot.

If you want to see the amount of memory actually being utilized by a job 
in the machine (slot) classad, so you can see it with condor_status, 
then sppend the following into the condor_config on every execute node:
  STARTD_JOB_ATTRS = $(STARTD_JOB_ATTRS) MemoryUsage ResidentSetSize
and do a condor_reconfig -all.  Then you will be able to do things like
  condor_status -af name memory memoryusage
to see the amount of memory provisioned and actually in use for every 
slot in your pool.  Note that memoryusage will by 'undefined' for slots 
that are not running a job.

Hope the above helps,
regards,
Todd