What might cause Jenkins to become unresponsive for brief periods of time?

2014-11-18 Thread Dunnigan, Terrence J
Hi All, From time to time our Jenkins will become unresponsive for brief periods of time. The software is still running (per Windows Task Manager) and the PC is otherwise perfectly responsive. CPU utilization does not exceed 10%. Plenty of available RAM. System specs: Windows Server 2008 Java

Re: What might cause Jenkins to become unresponsive for brief periods of time?

2014-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Parker
What about the CPU usage on a per core basis? I have seen Jenkins push a single core to maximum for periods of time. On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 12:21:41 PM UTC-6, Dunnigan, Terrence J wrote: Hi All, From time to time our Jenkins will become unresponsive for brief periods of time.

Re: What might cause Jenkins to become unresponsive for brief periods of time?

2014-11-18 Thread Mark Waite
You might also consider if you should switch from JDK 6 to JDK 7. The current Java 6 patch version is 1.6.0_45, which is newer than the Java 6 version you're running. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Jeffrey Parker thexd...@gmail.com wrote: What about the CPU usage on a per core basis? I have

RE: What might cause Jenkins to become unresponsive for brief periods of time?

2014-11-18 Thread Dunnigan, Terrence J
Thanks for the suggestion. It’s a 20+ core machine and we seldom exceed 5% utilization. Terry From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Parker Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:03 PM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re:

RE: What might cause Jenkins to become unresponsive for brief periods of time?

2014-11-18 Thread Dunnigan, Terrence J
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve wondered if it’s a Java thing, maybe garbage collecting? I haven’t ruled out a failing hard drive either, though I would expect the frequency to be increasing were that the case. Java 7 … yikes. Maybe I’ll upgrade the to the latest patch version first ☺ Terry