From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27261 invoked by alias); 6 Sep 2011 20:01:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 27254 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Sep 2011 20:01:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:01:11 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p86K1BtU029227 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:01:11 -0400 Received: from agk-dp.fab.redhat.com (agk-dp.fab.redhat.com [10.33.0.20]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p86K19YD012110 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:01:10 -0400 Received: from agk by agk-dp.fab.redhat.com with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R11pV-0007nF-EO for overseers@sourceware.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:01:09 +0100 Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:01:00 -0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: too many processes Message-ID: <20110906200109.GP4025@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> References: <20110906194525.GA6397@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110906194525.GA6397@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-q3/txt/msg00048.txt.bz2 On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:45:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You routinely have a lot of rsync processes running on sourceware. I tried to > contact you about this once on irc but I don't think I got a reply. > Could you take steps to correct this problem? I don't know why you're running > so many rsyncs but something clearly seems to be wrong. None running at the moment - it should only run one at once and they should be quick. I'll check the script anyway and try to keep an eye on it. If you spot it again, send me an email, or grab 'ps' output or something. But all I can think of is that it is rsyncing onto a fs mounted over NFS and occasionally NFS causes trouble - maybe the process backs up due to that. Alasdair