Re: problem with hald
Hi, Yep, that's what I'm leaning towards. Faye On 09/03/11 15:57, Steven Timm wrote: any reason you can't just turn hald off? Most servers don't need it. Steve Timm On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Faye Gibbins wrote: Hi, I've got one very special machine that has about 15,000 - 20,000 automount entries. Things are fine until about 5000 mount points are mounted up then any further adding (in a tight bash loop) slows dramatically and hald starts taking more and more CPU. Memeory usage is well below physical ram, no swapping. Automount mounting slows to a few seconds per mount and the system loads goes up and the machine slowly grinds to a halt. Running hald in foreground and in verbose mode I see lots and lots of this type of messages: 12:46:01.254 [I] osspec.c:256: /proc/mounts tells, that the mount has tree changed (process:10306): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup_extended: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed (process:10306): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup_extended: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed (process:10306): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup_extended: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed If anyone can shed some light on this it would make me very happy. It feels like when you see a search routine slow as n increases, is hald or dbus using a flat directory somewhere as a hash table? Machine details: SL5.5 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 Faye -- - Faye Gibbins, Sys Admin. GeoS KB. Linux, Unix, Security Beekeeper - The Apiary Project, KB - www.bees.ed.ac.uk - (x(x_(X_x(O_o)x_x)_X)x) I grabbed at spannungsbogen before I knew I wanted it. Socrates: Question authority, question everything. Mermin: If the maths works Shut up and calculate! The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: problem with hald
On 09/03/11 15:57, Steven Timm wrote: any reason you can't just turn hald off? Most servers don't need it. Steve Timm Furthermore note that HAL is deprecated and scheduled for removal ... - Charles
Re: problem with hald
any reason you can't just turn hald off? Most servers don't need it. Steve Timm On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Faye Gibbins wrote: Hi, I've got one very special machine that has about 15,000 - 20,000 automount entries. Things are fine until about 5000 mount points are mounted up then any further adding (in a tight bash loop) slows dramatically and hald starts taking more and more CPU. Memeory usage is well below physical ram, no swapping. Automount mounting slows to a few seconds per mount and the system loads goes up and the machine slowly grinds to a halt. Running hald in foreground and in verbose mode I see lots and lots of this type of messages: 12:46:01.254 [I] osspec.c:256: /proc/mounts tells, that the mount has tree changed (process:10306): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup_extended: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed (process:10306): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup_extended: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed (process:10306): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup_extended: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed If anyone can shed some light on this it would make me very happy. It feels like when you see a search routine slow as n increases, is hald or dbus using a flat directory somewhere as a hash table? Machine details: SL5.5 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 Faye -- -- Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 t...@fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities, Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Group Leader. Lead of FermiCloud project.
