[csw-buildfarm] High load with unknown source:

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Edwin,

Am 01.02.2010 um 21:15 schrieb Török Edwin:
> One of my unit tests has timed out, it is taking 7-20s, while it
> normally takes ~0.5s under Linux/x86-64:
> b9s:
> real       21.0
> user        2.2
> sys         2.4
> 
> Linux:
> real    0m0.537s
> user    0m0.228s
> sys     0m0.320s
> 
> 
> I noticed that there is a high load on the Solaris buildhosts
> (b8s,b9s,b10s):
> 
>  9:06pm  up 13 day(s),  9:35,  5 users,  load average: 14.52, 14.97, 15.93
> 
> 
> Is this normal? Is some maintainance task running on the buildfarms
> right now?

No, James is rebuilding OpenOffice with parallel builds as the ususal
build takes *very* long. The load looks quite impressive:
  <http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/munin/ncsw/ncsw/index.html#system>
Additionally I am rebuilding experimental-project catalogs which generates
about 350.000 files.

> If so I can disable my automated builds during the maintainance, just
> let me know what time intervals I should exclude.

No no, just go ahead.

Sorry for the inconvenience

  -- Dago