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

[Ken Causey]

On 11/02/2013 03:02 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
> Clearly, something is wrong.
>
> 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?

Yes, it is the local backup, it takes many hours.  You can see some 
details in /var/log/rsnapshot.log

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> The squeaksource process supporting source.squeak.org is also railing
> on the CPU.  I even see some qmail processes, anyone know about this?

What does 'railing' mean?

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> qmailr   28180  2063  0 19:57 ?        00:00:00 qmail-remote
> earthlink.net squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> ademkin at earthlink.net
> qmailr   28181  2063  0 19:57 ?        00:00:00 qmail-remote
> earthlink.net squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> charleshixsn at earthlink.net
> qmailr   28182  2063  0 19:57 ?        00:00:00 qmail-remote
> earthlink.net squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> shaping at earthlink.net
> qmailr   28183  2063  0 19:57 ?        00:00:00 qmail-remote
> earthlink.net squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> agantoniii at earthlink.net

This sort of thing is not unusual.

Ken

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> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> source.squeak.org became unacceptably slow. Both the web interface, and the
>> MC API are very slow. Can someone take a look?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Levente
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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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