Re: [HTCondor-users] swap space

[Almudena Montiel <almudena.montiel@xxxxxx>]

Sorry, the current swap space is 4G, I misspelled 24G instead.


On 19/11/18 17:40, Almudena Montiel wrote:
> Hi
>
> how could I estimate, or as a rule of thumb, the amount of swap space 
> for a htcondor instance?
>
> We have around one thousand slots, and the deployment of HTCondor 
> central services is simply configured in one physical server. This 
> server is IBM 69Y4438 , 1TB SAS3 in RAID6, RAM DDR3 24G and we have 
> created a swap space of 24G.
>
> Sometimes we have seen peaks of swap consumption, especially by the 
> condor_collector daemon, becoming 100% of used swap space. This lead 
> to a problematic situation.
>
> Is this normal? Shall we increase the swap space? Or does this anomaly 
> come from other reason?
>
> Cheers

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