perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Phil Reese <>]

Looks like a colleague here made some progress, he writes:
> Found a process "perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters" which caused the kernel 
> panic. The service is currently disabled.
At least it can be massaged into operation now that it is functional.

Hope this may help someone else!

Phil



On 3/10/17 12:27 PM, Phil Reese wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're trying to get the current production version of PS installed on 
> a Dell.  We want to make this a 100g tester box, so have a 100g 
> Mellanox MCX456A-ECA card installed.
>
> After a normal install of PS, just before the system would come up, we 
> consistently get the following error:
>
> Loading mlx5_core.ko module
> Out of memory: Kill process 231 (insmod) score 1 or sacrifice child
> Killed process 231, UID 0, (insmod) total-vm:1424kV, anon-rss: 320kB, 
> file-rss:12kB
>
> And the system is hung, only a power cycle brings it back.
>
> Moving to single user, we can get on the system but even moving all 
> the mlx* drivers out of the way, the error still happens.
>
> We're pretty sure there is an easy fix but wanted to ask this group 
> before investing more time into the effort.  Really would like to see 
> PS4 and Centos 7 as soon a possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Phil