[csw-buildfarm] High load with unknown source:

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Am 01.02.2010 um 21:23 schrieb 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

BTW, you can still use the x86 build hosts.


Best regards

  -- Dago