Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] excessively high load avg, again (daily?)
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:18:13PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: This high load may be due to the nightly rsync you see below: The rsync job (nightly backups) is likely the cause of the high IO wait (22% in your top output). Still, I don't think that that would account for all of the high load average. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege | CTO, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 25F774AB | http://identi.ca/cure | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=859
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] excessively high load avg, again (daily?)
On 12/8/11 7:18 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Since there were some git-daemon processes dating back to November and since we have a limit on those (at least I think that's what Michael said), I've just killed those November git-daemon processes. I just added a timeout for them, just like we do for bzr. Perhaps related, there are lots of these in dmesg. We get from 1 to ~6 per hour: [2572324.224898] cgit.cgi[29777]: segfault at 863d000 ip b768c810 sp bfe9da2c error 6 in libc-2.11.2.so[b7619000+14] I'll investigate this further later today... In the near future I'll upgrade the version of git we're using, along with upgrading cgit.cgi. -- Michael J. Flickinger
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] excessively high load avg, again (daily?)
Michael J. Flickinger wrote: On 12/8/11 7:18 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Since there were some git-daemon processes dating back to November and since we have a limit on those (at least I think that's what Michael said), I've just killed those November git-daemon processes. I just added a timeout for them, just like we do for bzr. Perhaps related, there are lots of these in dmesg. We get from 1 to ~6 per hour: [2572324.224898] cgit.cgi[29777]: segfault at 863d000 ip b768c810 sp bfe9da2c error 6 in libc-2.11.2.so[b7619000+14] I'll investigate this further later today... In the near future I'll upgrade the version of git we're using, along with upgrading cgit.cgi. Great. Thanks for pursuing it.
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] excessively high load avg, again (daily?)
On 12/8/11 3:30 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Michael J. Flickinger wrote: On 12/8/11 7:18 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Since there were some git-daemon processes dating back to November and since we have a limit on those (at least I think that's what Michael said), I've just killed those November git-daemon processes. I just added a timeout for them, just like we do for bzr. Perhaps related, there are lots of these in dmesg. We get from 1 to ~6 per hour: [2572324.224898] cgit.cgi[29777]: segfault at 863d000 ip b768c810 sp bfe9da2c error 6 in libc-2.11.2.so[b7619000+14] I'll investigate this further later today... In the near future I'll upgrade the version of git we're using, along with upgrading cgit.cgi. Great. Thanks for pursuing it. Upgraded git: git version 1.7.2.5 Upgraded to latest version of cgit: 0.9.0.2 I'm not really sure I like the idea of C cgi programs. Hopefully the segfaults will stop. If they don't, I'll debug it when I have some time... -- Michael J. Flickinger
