On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:26:39AM +0100, Gordan wrote:
> Is it normal for a node without any bandwidth throttling with about 1 Mb of 
> symmetric bandwidth to max out at under 16 KB/s (1/8 of the actual available 
> bandwidth)? At first, for about an hour, the node will go and consume 100% of 
> the available bandwidth, then it will start to overload and slow down, and 
> very quickly reach a reasonably steady state at about 16 KB/s. This has been 
> observed on a dual 1 GHz P3 server. Quite frequently, the node will spike 
> it's CPU consumption to 100% (both CPUs), but most of the time it is using up 
> at least all of one CPU.

Bandwidth throttling is enabled by default at 16kB/second outbound.
Please check that you have uncommented the line:
outputBandwidthLimit=0

Otherwise, I have no idea...
> 
> I have deliverately switched off bandwidth throttling to see if this was the 
> cause of the problem, and it would appear that it isn't.
> 
> The number of threads and the routing time are on overload most of the time.

That's probably something to do with it.
> 
> This has been observed with unstable 6162, 6163 and 6167 on Linux, Sun's JVM 
> 1.4.2. 6168 seems to be doing slightly better but not by much.

With 6162? So it's pre-ngrouting. Okay, that's a useful additional
datapoint.
> 
> Does anybody know where the bottleneck on this particular problem is? 
> Increasing the number of threads from 128 to 256 only seems to make the 
> problem worse, especially seen as after a while the cause of the overload 
> seems to be the routing time.
> 
> The node will typically continue to chug along this way until it is restarted, 
> at which point the cycle seems to repeat, i.e. max out the bandwidth, then 
> after an hour or so fall back down to overload speeds.

This problem is being actively worked on.

> 
> Gordan

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