[LDM #DCY-791038]: Load average high with LDM-6.12.12 with pqact/ldmd

Gilbert,

That's odd. The differences between 6.12.11 and 6.12.12 are minimal.

What was the version you were using before?

> Hi Steve,
> 
> From feast to famine in terms of load average this week with the new
> LDM's. Check out my load average on weather.admin.niu.edu:
> 
> top - 16:06:50 up 33 days,  2:05,  2 users,  load average: 3.46, 3.43,
> 3.22
> Tasks: 311 total,   3 running, 308 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  1.5%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 66.2%id, 30.8%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   3901056k total,  3790212k used,   110844k free,   356308k buffers
> Swap:  6143996k total,    58024k used,  6085972k free,  3050964k cached
> 
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 778 ldm       20   0 1483m 1.4g 1.4g S  4.3 38.7   0:19.63 ldmd
> 770 ldm       20   0 1463m 632m 613m D  2.3 16.6   0:32.24 pqact
> 2197 root     -99   0 20040 1860 1504 S  2.3  0.0   1208:54 darkice
> 769 ldm       20   0 1444m 472m 472m S  0.7 12.4   0:06.62 pqact
> 775 ldm       20   0 1448m 1.1g 1.1g S  0.7 29.8   0:14.36 ldmd
> 2807 root      20   0 39548 4464 3324 S  0.7  0.1  37:37.20 Xorg
> 766 ldm       20   0 1444m 472m 472m S  0.3 12.4   0:06.61 rtstats
> 768 ldm       20   0 1444m 495m 495m S  0.3 13.0   0:06.84 pqact
> 771 ldm       20   0 1444m 473m 472m S  0.3 12.4   0:06.83 pqact
> 776 ldm       20   0 1444m 1356  952 S  0.3  0.0   0:05.38 ldmd
> 777 ldm       20   0 1445m 394m 394m S  0.3 10.4   0:10.83 ldmd
> 780 ldm       20   0  7888 4708 4324 D  0.3  0.1   0:04.78 pqact
> 1329 root      20   0     0    0    0 D  0.3  0.0  60:21.14 jbd2/dm-2-8
> 1537 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0  19:36.44 kondemand/0
> 1562 root      20   0  3564  572  476 S  0.3  0.0   1:59.52 irqbalance
> 1693 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0  29:22.03 flush-253:2
> 3218 ldm       20   0  134m 9.8m 4172 S  0.3  0.3  22:05.77
> gnome-settings-
> 
> Note the %MEM column. I have not noticed pqact and ldmd taking up so much
> memory before. Is it just me, or is that a lot? The load average is high
> as a result.
> 
> Gilbert
> 
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: DCY-791038
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed