From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3838 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2004 19:43:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3755 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2004 19:43:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dair.pair.com) (209.68.1.49) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Apr 2004 19:43:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 35340 invoked by uid 20157); 6 Apr 2004 19:43:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:43:00 -0000 From: Hans-Peter Nilsson X-X-Sender: hp@dair.pair.com To: Jonathan Larmour cc: David Edelsohn , overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: htdig and sources.redhat.com loadavg In-Reply-To: <4072F04E.2050801@eCosCentric.com> Message-ID: References: <200404051849.i35InoT27980@makai.watson.ibm.com> <20040405205147.GA21949@coc.bosbc.com> <200404061740.i36HeoT28142@makai.watson.ibm.com> <4072F04E.2050801@eCosCentric.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-q2/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > Remember that the htdig problems of yesterday were to do with the gcc side > of the server. The htdig you are looking at is the sourceware side which > should have no real problem (other than the load due to other processes on > the server). I agree with what you said except add that the same problem (database files needing to grow larger than the access methods can handle) will very soon be visible on the sourceware side too. At this moment, the db.wordlist database is 2065784280 bytes long. (Hmm, I *could* pipe that through gzip, which may also temporarily help with the gcc problem... I'll try and look into that later. Plenty of CPU on sourceware, it's the disk I/O that's the problem. I guess (can't access /proc/ide/hda/settings) that the IDE drives are still not using DMA...) > kill -STOP 24943 ; sleep 3600; kill -CONT 24943 The load is currently at 44. I've stopped htdig. I'll keep it stopped for two hours and see if it helps. Somebody please remind me in 3-4 hours if you haven't heard from me. brgds, H-P