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[LDM #BOV-866570]: LDM crashes on noaaport.admin.niu.edu, then sends the load average skyrocketing

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  • Subject: [LDM #BOV-866570]: LDM crashes on noaaport.admin.niu.edu, then sends the load average skyrocketing
  • Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 08:21:26 -0600
Hi Gilbert and Steve,

re:
> Just FYI, this anti-DOS feature can also be disabled by setting
> the registry parameter "/server/enable-anti-DOS" to "FALSE". For example,
> 
> regutil -s FALSE /server/enable-anti-DOS
> 
> The default value of this parameter is TRUE.

After letting LDM v6.10.1 run overnight (with no problems), I stopped it this
morning, changed the runtime link to point at v6.12.9, edited 
~ldm/etc/registry.xml
and added the anti-DOS <server> tag, and restarted.  When I took a look at load
averages about 20 minutes later, they had risen to 7 and the top CPU users were
'ldmd's:

top - 09:18:30 up 4 days, 16:12,  1 user,  load average: 7.02, 6.88, 5.03
Tasks: 199 total,   8 running, 191 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 87.6%us,  0.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 12.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   6096936k total,  5010388k used,  1086548k free,   256840k buffers
Swap:  8388600k total,        0k used,  8388600k free,  4338016k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
COMMAND                                                                         
      
27397 ldm       25   0 1204m 2500 1376 R 100.0  0.0  20:25.93 ldmd              
                                                                   
27459 ldm       25   0 1204m 2468 1360 R 100.0  0.0  19:22.15 ldmd              
                                                                   
27463 ldm       25   0 1204m 2392 1352 R 100.0  0.0  19:22.71 ldmd              
                                                                   
27464 ldm       25   0 1204m 2392 1356 R 100.0  0.0  19:22.71 ldmd              
                                                                   
27465 ldm       25   0 1204m 2520 1356 R 100.0  0.0  19:22.63 ldmd              
                                                                   
27467 ldm       25   0 1204m 2440 1356 R 100.0  0.0  19:21.21 ldmd              
                                                                   
27466 ldm       25   0 1204m 2512 1352 R 99.8  0.0  19:21.48 ldmd               
                                                                   

I then stopped the LDM (I had to kill the 'ldmd' processes by hand and
delete and remake the LDM queue to), switched the runtime link back to
v6.10.1 and restarted.  The load averages returned to their low values:

top - 09:25:15 up 4 days, 16:19,  1 user,  load average: 0.91, 4.47, 4.78
Tasks: 199 total,   1 running, 198 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.4%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   6096936k total,  5025332k used,  1071604k free,   258056k buffers
Swap:  8388600k total,        0k used,  8388600k free,  4338016k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
                                                                   
29332 ldm       16   0 1199m 232m 231m S  1.0  3.9   0:00.20 ldmd               
                                                                   
29338 ldm       16   0 1199m 110m 109m S  1.0  1.8   0:00.59 ldmd               
                                                                   
29249 ldm       16   0 1198m 110m 109m S  0.7  1.9   0:01.08 rtstats            
                                                                   
29254 ldm       15   0 1199m 230m 229m S  0.7  3.9   0:00.53 ldmd               
                                                                   
29274 ldm       16   0 1199m 110m 109m S  0.7  1.9   0:00.84 ldmd               
                                                                   
29337 ldm       16   0 1199m 110m 109m S  0.7  1.8   0:00.58 ldmd               
                                                                   
 4059 root      16   0 10256  704  608 S  0.3  0.0   0:27.20 hald-addon-stor    
                                                                   
11222 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.58 pdflush            
                                                                   
29251 ldm       15   0 1231m 261m 240m S  0.3  4.4   0:00.73 ldmd               
                                                                   
29253 ldm       15   0 1199m 171m 170m S  0.3  2.9   0:00.84 ldmd               
                                                                   
29266 ldm       16   0 1199m 110m 109m S  0.3  1.9   0:00.87 ldmd               
                                                                   
29268 ldm       16   0 1199m 240m 239m S  0.3  4.0   0:00.53 ldmd               
                                                                   
29342 ldm       16   0 1199m 110m 109m S  0.3  1.8   0:00.57 ldmd               
                                                                   

My surmise from yesterday afternoon appears to stand.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BOV-866570
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed