On 15 November 2012 06:52, Michael Hudson-Doyle
<[email protected]>wrote:

> YongQin Liu <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi, Andy & Michael
> >
> >
> > About the problem that the telnet process consumes
> > CPU(bug1034218<https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+bug/1034218>
> > ),
> > For now I tried two ways to verify it:
> > 1. Run the CTS test via submitting a lava-job
> >     In this way, the process that consumes CPU is telnet
> > 2. Run the CTS test via command line "lava-android-test run cts"
> >     In this way, there is no process that consumes CPU to 100%,
> >     In the meanwhile, I also opened the telnet session.
> >
> > So I guess the problem is the way we calling the telnet command in
> > lava-dispatcher.
> > From my investigation, it's the select syscall in telnet that consumes
> CPU,
> > So I doubt if there is some place in lava-dispatcher that reads the ouput
> > of telnet in a loop without sleep in the loop.
> > but I did not find such place in lava-dispatcher.
> >
> > How do you think about it?
>
> This is all fairly strange.  However, it seems like this is not the
> problem we had running CTS before; IIRC then it was java processes
> causing trouble on control.  As the load from telnet is pure CPU load
> (i.e. it doesn't consume masses of RAM or do loads of IO) I would be in
> favour of enabling CTS again (carefully) and watching the graphs on
>
> http://munin.validation.linaro.org/validation.linaro.org/control.validation.linaro.org/index.html


Okay. I will go ahead and enable it for the builds which have hardware
acceleration support:
https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/panda-jb-gcc47-tilt-stable-blob/
https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/snowball-jb-gcc47-igloo-stable-blob/<https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/snowball-jb-gcc47-igloo-stable-blob/#>
https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/origen-jb-gcc47-samsunglt-tracking-blob/<https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/origen-jb-gcc47-samsunglt-tracking-blob/#>


>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
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