[Bioclusters] Wrong system and load values from GE on MacOS X

[Rayson Ho]

I've tried SGE on OSX, works OK.

SGEp2 is *really* old, you should download the source from the SGE site
and compile on your machine.

http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList

Rayson


--- "Beltrami, Riccardo" <Riccardo_Beltrami@Chiron.it> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm trying to add few MacOS X execution nodes in our experimental
> Grid 
> Engine cluster.
> 
> The GE port I'm using is the Van Etten's 5.3p2 version available as a
> 
> package on the BioTeam web site.
> 
> It's working ok however when I run qhost as user sgeadmin on an 
> administration host I get:
> 
> HOSTNAME             ARCH       NPROC  LOAD   MEMTOT   MEMUSE  
> SWAPTO   SWAPUS
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> stark                darwin         1     -      0.0        -     
> 0.0        -
> 
> where stark is my MacOS X execution host.
> 
> The problem is that stark is a dual processor PPC G4 1.25GHz with
> 1.5GB of 
> RAM so the NPROC, MEMTOT etc. values are wrong reported.
> 
> In fact, if I run the command loadcheck found in
> $SGE_ROOT/utilbin/darwin 
> directory as user root this is what I get:
> 
> # ./loadcheck
> arch            darwin
> num_proc        1
> load_short      0.00
> load_medium     0.00
> load_long       0.00
> mem_free        0.000000M
> swap_free       0.000000M
> virtual_free    0.000000M
> mem_total       0.000000M
> swap_total      0.000000M
> virtual_total   0.000000M
> mem_used        0.000000M
> swap_used       0.000000M
> virtual_used    0.000000M
> cpu             0.0%
> 
> Those values are clearly wrong, and if I run the same command on
> other 
> execution host (for example Solaris/Sparc machine) I get correct
> values.
> 
> Stark runs MacOS X 10.2.6 with all the latest patches available from
> Apple.
> 
> Does anybody know how to fix/solve this problem?
> 
> Tia, Riccardo.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>   | Riccardo Beltrami                               |-.
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>   | Bioinformatics                                  | |
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>   | riccardo_beltrami@chiron.it                     | |
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