Errr..   you chave dropped caches?   echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 15:59, Yann Jobic via users <users@lists.open-mpi.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le 6/20/2019 à 3:31 PM, Noam Bernstein via users a écrit :
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 20, 2019, at 4:44 AM, Charles A Taylor <chas...@ufl.edu
> >> <mailto:chas...@ufl.edu>> wrote:
> >>
> >> This looks a lot like a problem I had with OpenMPI 3.1.2.  I thought
> >> the fix was landed in 4.0.0 but you might
> >> want to check the code to be sure there wasn’t a regression in 4.1.x.
> >>  Most of our codes are still running
> >> 3.1.2 so I haven’t built anything beyond 4.0.0 which definitely
> >> included the fix.
> >
> > Unfortunately, 4.0.0 behaves the same.
> >
> > One thing that I’m wondering if anyone familiar with the internals can
> > explain is how you get a memory leak that isn’t freed when then program
> > ends?  Doesn’t that suggest that it’s something lower level, like maybe
> > a kernel issue?
>
> Maybe it's only some data in cache memory, which is tagged as "used",
> but the kernel could use it, if needed. Have you tried to use the whole
> memory again with your code ? It sould work.
>
> Yann
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