Re: Ten percent test

Gene Heskett
2007-04-09T05:23:15Z

On Monday 09 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:57 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> >On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:40 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> > That seems to be the killer loading here, building a kernel (make
>> >> > -j3) doesn't seem to lag it all that bad. One session of gzip
>> >> > -best makes it fall plumb over though, which was a
>> >> > disappointment.
>> >>
>> >> Can you make a testcase that doesn't require amanda?
>> >
>> >Or at least send me a couple of 5 or 10 second top snapshots (which
>> > also show CPU usage of sleeping tasks) while the system is
>> > misbehaving?
>> >
>> > -Mike
>>
>> With what monitor utility?
>
>Top.
>
> -Mike

This may not be so informative, its almost behaving ATM.

29252 amanda 22 0 1856 572 220 R 76.4 0.1 1:07.24 gzip
29235 amanda 15 0 2992 1224 888 S 5.6 0.1 0:02.80 chunker
29500 root 18 0 2996 1164 788 S 4.0 0.1 0:02.40 tar
10459 amanda 15 0 3340 1052 832 S 3.0 0.1 0:49.04 amandad
10536 amanda 15 0 3276 1308 1004 S 2.3 0.1 0:40.92 dumper
29496 amanda 18 0 2808 472 280 S 2.0 0.0 0:01.73 sendbackup
4057 gkrellmd 15 0 11568 1172 896 S 1.3 0.1 7:45.82 gkrellmd
29498 amanda 18 0 2396 780 656 S 1.0 0.1 0:00.60 tar
19183 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:01.92 pdflush

I also note with some disdain that I'm half a megabyte into swap, but I've
had FF-2.0.0.3 busy for the last hour while amanda was trying to find a
few cycles at the same time. Looking at a bunch of pdf's of circuit
boards to see if I wanna build them for my milling machine.

--
Cheers, Gene
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