[Mauiusers] Maui Crash, possibly linked to RESERVATIONDEPTH

[Jason Williams]

I am seeing a very odd bug and am curious if anyone else has seen it. 
I'm running Maui 3.2.6p21 and any time I set RESERVATIONDEPTH higher 
than 1 and more than 300 or so jobs in the queue, maui will crash on the 
bottom side of the scheduler iteration.  The higher the RESERVATIONDEPTH 
the more likely I am to see the crash. The error message from the crash, 
after figuring out that the message gets thrown away by the something 
not redirecting stderr to stdout or to a more meaningful place, is:

*** glibc detected *** /opt/maui/sbin/maui: malloc(): memory corruption: 
0x0000000012247800 ***

Now the memory address is always the same, although I'm sure to the 
outside observer its exact value is probably pretty meaningless.

So on a whim, I ran maui through valgrind to try to see if valgrind had 
any insight to what was going on.  The valgrind report is long(-ish) and 
not very encouraging and my experience running things through valgrind 
is novice at the moment.  But it seems most of what valgrind is 
complaining about (and which would be relevant) would be the function 
MResAdjustDRes and all the magic that goes on in there.

I'm basically wondering if anyone else has seen this sort of behavior 
and if they have a solution/workaround/patch they'd like to share.  I've 
been looking at the code for about a day now and don't really see what 
would be causing the valgrind errors let alone the crashing.  If you're 
interested in the valgrind report, I can send it along.

Thanks


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Jason Williams
Systems Administrator
Johns Hopkins University
Physics and Astronomy Department