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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Dear All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Sorry to intervene and being rude and send this message directly to you folks. I have made several attempts to reach to </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org">linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org</a>
and my attempts have failed miserably and I have not be able make any </span><span style="color:#1F497D">></span><span style="color:black">progress on this issue I have had for months now. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span><span style="color:black">With all humbleness I request your help so that I can get assistance with this issue of mine. Please guide me. I get hundreds-thousands of emails from
<a href="http://vger.kernel.org">vger.kernel.org</a>, not a problem, but I cannot post my
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">></span><span style="color:black">question to the email above. Any help will be like God's grace for me now.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">I feel this is a bug. I am at kernel: 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">I have run into this many a times and only reboot has been the fix. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Issue is on every idle(not running any user processes) machine(diskless node, & no swap) I see AnonHugePages limits the amount of memory that can be allocated
to any new process/program on that that system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">When ever I see this happen, atop always show vmcom > vmlim, i a situation where there is no swap disk I am thinking this is causing the system to lock up
that memory from use by any other process on that system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Since you are new from my reading it looks like you are using the OpenSFS branch of Lustre. In that case please don\u2019t post to the staging driver mailing list
or the kernel mailing list. Which version are you using for your clients and servers and what distro?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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