[SAC] Fair projectsVM usage (esp. Openlayers)

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 12 03:35:41 EST 2012


Markus wrote:
> I would like to remind folks to set
> cron jobs "nice"ly, otherwise
> the performance goes down (read: unresponsive):
> 
> 
> top - 00:21:37 up 10 days,  3:53,  1 user, 
> load average: 42.23, 36.57, 31.99  <<---!!


fwiw I'm pretty sure the crazy load averages are due to bacula.


>   PID USER      PR  NI 
> VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM   
> TIME+  COMMAND
> 23588 openlaye  39  0  144m  18m 1640
> R  100  0.2   2044:46 perl
>                
>   ^^^^^^--!!
> 
> See the load average.
> 
> Solution: Put the word "nice" in front of your jobs to run
> them with nice level 10 rather than 0.
> 
> Yes, please do recheck your jobs. Thanks.


perl has been running at 100% for a couple days...


Hamish


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