changelog Updates

Memex Login Hung on 11/17/21

by Floyd Fayton
Initial incident and probable cause: Broken pipe on the login caused by a file update on the login. The master node and login were both rebooted and “wwsh file sync” commands were automated memex_routecheck.sh (crontab and cron.hourly).
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System Failure
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Login hangs after kernel message...

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Update (6/29/20): The login hang was caused by high I/O load which is returning after a weekend hiatus. Unfortunately, limiting the I/O on the login is not yet feasible due to the design of the system. The issue is not due to a lack of...
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System Failure

Master Node Rebooted

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Incident (5/21/20): While fixing issues with the GPU nodes, the master node became unstable because of several mount points that were damaged. All of the mount were runtime filesystems so a reboot was requested and fulfilled by SRCF...
System Failure
Fix

SLURM Priority Adjustment

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Since priorities were not working for those users who use Memex less frequently and in smaller batches of submitted jobs, these parameters were adjusted: As a result gres/gpu was added to: This functionality changes in SLURM 19+, but...
Announcement
Maintenance
Improvement

Memex unable to accept new user logins

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Issue 01/14/20: While installing new packages on the login server, the file /etc/resolv.conf was overwritten and caused new user logins to fail. Once the file was replaced with the proper nameserver values, Memex accepted new logins...
Fix
System Failure

User reported that rsync/cp/scp too slow on /memexnfs/apps,

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Temporary Resolution 01/02/20: Using rclone instead of rsync/cp/scp is 10x faster for large directory and possibly large file syncs to /memexnfs/ mountpoints. Although all reads from /memexnfs mounts are performing performing as...
System Failure
Announcement
Fix