[Box-Admins] Slowness of source.squeak.org

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Chris Muller wrote:

> Clearly, something is wrong.
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> top shows the box quite busy.  One of the tasks is:
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> /bin/cp -al /var/cache/rsnapshot/daily.0/ /var/cache/rsnapshot/daily.1/
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> owned by root.  Is someone doing some sort of big copy?

That's probably a script doing the daily backups.

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> The squeaksource process supporting source.squeak.org is also railing

That probably means that full GCs are happening too often, which can be a 
sign of running low on external semaphores. It's hard to investigate it 
without having access to the box, but if I were you, I would simply 
restart it.

> on the CPU.  I even see some qmail processes, anyone know about this?

Probably the mailing list. Hard to tell if it's normal or not, but it 
probably is.

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Pasting emails is not nice :).


Levente

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> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> source.squeak.org became unacceptably slow. Both the web interface, and the
>> MC API are very slow. Can someone take a look?
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>> Cheers,
>> Levente
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>> P.S.: It's suspicious that some packages seem to be uploaded multiple times:
>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2013-November/date.html
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>> P.P.S: I've lost the private key to the server, that's why I can't check it
>> myself.
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