[lustre-discuss] Cannot mount from Lustre from client any longer

[Miguel Santos Novoa]

Hi, unfortunately this didn't work either.

Not sure if I could file this as a bug, since I am not sure what caused it.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 4:46 PM Mohr Jr, Richard Frank <rmohr at utk.edu>
wrote:

>
> > On Jun 27, 2019, at 8:16 AM, Miguel Santos Novoa <miguelsn at met.no>
> wrote:
> >
> > For the last couple of weeks we have been adding and removing OSTs, and
> we were also doing tests with a client using Lustre version 2.12, which
> this seems our main hypothesis of the problem. We are not sure what is
> causing this behavior.
> >
> > From all our clients, we cannot mount lustre any longer, although the
> active mounts are still serving and no other element seems to be affected.
> Because of the nature and importance we have not and we don't want to give
> it a try to reboot the MDS/MDT server.
>
> It might be a long shot, but you could try dropping caches on the Lustre
> servers (echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches).
>
> I have an issue on one of my file systems running Lustre 2.9 that seems to
> be a bug related to the IB stack.  After a certain point, the servers start
> getting memory allocation errors.  Existing clients that have lustre
> mounted work fine, but I can’t mount any new clients.  After dropping
> caches, I can mount new clients again.  (I realize that you are using tcp
> instead of IB, but since the symptoms sound very similar to what I have
> seen, it might be worth a try.)
>
> --
> Rick Mohr
> Senior HPC System Administrator
> National Institute for Computational Sciences
> http://www.nics.tennessee.edu
>
>
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