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

[Joseph Landman]

You should also be able to write various load sensors by hand if
needed.  The manual is rather good on how to do this (for 5.x).


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:22, Rayson Ho wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >                           O
> >                          / \
> >   ,---------------------+---+-----------------------.
> >   | Riccardo Beltrami                               |-.
> >   |                                                 | |
> >   | Bioinformatics                                  | |
> >   |                                                 | |
> >   | riccardo_beltrami@chiron.it                     | |
> >   |                                                 | |
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