[SAC] xblade14-2 at load average: 9.75

[Mateusz Loskot]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:29 PM,  <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:21:33 +0200, "Markus Neteler" <neteler at osgeo.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi xblade14-2 users,
>>>
>>> please be so kind to make use of "nice" for your routine jobs.
>>> grass.osgeo.org is partially unresponsive (since we share resources
>>> here):
>>>
>>> exit 04:18:04 up 33 days,  5:04,  1 user,  load average: 9.75, 8.79, 7.12
>>> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
>>> neteler  pts/3    host188-108-dyna 04:16    3.00s  0.04s  0.01s w
>>> [neteler at xblade14-2 cronjobs]$ top
>>> top - 04:18:48 up 33 days,  5:04,  1 user,  load average: 9.25, 8.78,
>> 7.18
>>> Tasks: 133 total,   4 running, 129 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>>> Cpu(s): 78.4% us, 17.3% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  4.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0%
>>> si
>>> Mem:   1034320k total,  1018812k used,    15508k free,    31296k buffers
>>> Swap:  2096472k total,   118788k used,  1977684k free,   327736k cached
>>>
>>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>> 10883 apache    16   0 69360  36m 6436 S 26.9  3.7  16:48.33 httpd
>>> 21243 buildbot  18   0 45736  21m  10m R 25.3  2.2   0:19.93 python
>>> 30840 apache    15   0 62704  30m 6260 S 15.6  3.0   1:01.47 httpd
>>>  8709 pramsey   18   0 24132  14m 2596 D  8.0  1.4   0:03.28 doxygen
>>>  8200 mysql     15   0  131m  18m 4212 S  6.6  1.8 321:59.04 mysqld
>>> 17918 buildbot  16   0 33640  16m 1808 S  5.0  1.7  20:53.63 buildbot
>>> 17923 buildbot  15   0 12744 4188 1028 S  4.7  0.4   9:57.00 buildbot
>>> 31458 buildbot  16   0 26648  12m 7708 D  2.0  1.3   0:01.64 python
>>> 27007 buildbot  17   0  4208  900  544 D  0.7  0.1   0:04.44 cp
>>>  8819 neteler   16   0  4756 1616 1212 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.12 top
>>>     1 root      15   0  1744  512  488 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.06 init
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> doxygen, and buildbot should really use a different nice level.
>>> Please review your cronjobs.
>> Markus,
>>
>> I've restarted all buildbot instance and cleaned logs.
>>
>> Generally, buildbot scheduled jobs are configured to not to happen at the
>> same time.
>> But, commits trigger buildbot jobs and perhaps that was the case here.
> 
> Thanks Mateusz, but still nice level is 0.
> I feel that it should be more "friendly" to the other users (and it does not
> matter of buildbot takes a few minutes more).
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 25762 buildbot  23   0     0    0    0 R  4.3  0.0   0:00.13 cc1
> 25682 buildbot  25   0  5208 1892 1008 S  3.0  0.2   0:00.09 sh
> 10300 buildbot  15   0 15260 9032 1544 S  1.0  0.9   0:01.69 buildbot
> 10304 buildbot  15   0 12348 5764 1000 S  1.0  0.6   0:01.77 buildbot
> 13360 neteler   16   0  4760 1620 1212 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.26 top
> 
> NI = 0 - it would suffice to add "nice" to the launch command.

Markus,

Understood and I have no problem with making buildbot nice.
What priority level would you suggest?

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org