On Mon, 23 May 2005, Ian Fisk wrote: > Hi Maarten, > On May 23, 2005, at 4:18 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 May 2005, Ian Fisk wrote: > > > > > >> We are experiencing an interesting problem with the > >> grid-monitor-manager. It appears to manifest itself in two ways > >> > >> 1.) users report problems of jobs never exiting the scheduling state > >> 2.) Machine memory usage increases until the system goes unstable > >> > >> What appears to be happening is under some circumstances the lock > >> file > >> in /opt/globus/tmp for the grid-monitor-manager is corrupted. The > >> > > > > In what way? Can you send me examples? > > The log gets nulls appended to the start of the lock file. The > normal lock has something like > > 687 1116880933 > > I think the first is PID and the second is a time stamp. After > corruption, the file has a series of nulls in front. The more > starts, the more nulls. Is /opt/globus/tmp on an NFS?