Re: gluck is too loaded

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Andreas Barth writes:
>Hi,
>
>gluck is suffering from too high load. Constantly, the load is about 4
>now. One top snapshot shows (with the first indicator pending between
>3 and 5):
>
> 03:47:15 up 62 days, 18:51,  7 users,  load average: 3.58, 4.17, 4.34
>185 processes: 180 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped
>CPU states:  36.3% user,  22.2% system,   0.0% nice,  41.5% idle
>Mem:   3879936K total,  3867316K used,    12620K free,   128756K buffers
>Swap:  2000084K total,   191444K used,  1808640K free,  2693140K cached
>
>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 3850 manty     19   0  112M 112M  1072 R    88.5  2.9   5:16 jigdo-file
>13668 joy       16   0  242M 131M  131M R    18.7  3.4  65:05 lintian
>31648 djpig     10   0  9140 9140  1452 S    16.9  0.2   1:31 urlcheck.py

Hmmm. The jigdo-file process will be manty doing a CD or DVD creation
run. We're already working on ways to make those much more efficient,
which should hopefully make a big difference to the load on gluck.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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