On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:28:39PM +1100, Darren Reed wrote: > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > > So certainly SOMETHING ran 10,000+ processes. I've seen complaints about > > this in other places too. > > Hmmm, too bad process accounting isn't available early on in bootup, > that'd at least allow some evidence gathering.
I have observed these processes running and noted at the time that they were children of postrun - a couple of my test boxes are Netra X1's and it's particularly obvious on those machines as postrun can take about 15 minutes to complete. Postrun logs its activity to /var/log/postrun.log and the biggest culprits seem to be the jobs which use gconftool-2 to install desktop preference "schemas". I last watched this happening on b71, b81 may have improved as postrun completes in about 2 minutes on an amd64 box, and I'm pretty sure earlier builds were taking 5 minutes or more on the same box. I plan to upgrade at least one X1 to b81 later this week so I'll get a better idea then. Pete.
