Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] excessively high load avg, again (daily?)

2011-12-08 Thread Ward Vandewege
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

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] excessively high load avg, again (daily?)

2011-12-08 Thread Michael J. Flickinger
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

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] excessively high load avg, again (daily?)

2011-12-08 Thread Jim Meyering
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

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] excessively high load avg, again (daily?)

2011-12-08 Thread Michael J. Flickinger
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