[Lustre-discuss] lfs quotacheck -ug /lfs01/ sleeps

[Ashley Pittman]

On 16 Jun 2011, at 11:54, Mohamed Adel wrote:

> Dear Ashley,
> 
> Thanks for your quick response.
>> This is correct, look for a kernel process called "quotacheck" on the Lustre servers, when all those threads have exited then lfs should also exit.  As came up yesterday this could take a few tens of minutes.
> 
> Issuing "ps aux | grep quotacheck" command on all lustre servers (mds and oss) didn't show any "quotacheck" process running though "lfs quotacheck" is still sleeping on the client from which I issued the "lfs quotacheck". Does that mean the processes has finished? or something else went wrong?

This is what I see when I test it on our cluster here, this is a demo filesystem so very small hence the quotacheck happens very quickly, on a real fs you should see more processes.

$ pdsh -a ps auwx | grep quota
sabina-client0: root      6621  0.0  0.0   4280   464 pts/1    S+   13:36   0:00 lfs quotacheck /lustre/sab/client
sabina-oss1: root     30278  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    13:36   0:00 [quotacheck]
sabina-mds1: root     12310  0.0  0.0  61160   776 pts/0    S+   13:36   0:00 grep quota

This is on a 1.8 filesystem, I believe it used to work differently on 1.6.

Ashley.