[Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah overload issues

[Mathieu Roy]

Vincent Caron <address@hidden> a tapoté :

> Hello,
>
>    some people might have noticed we have had some ponctual troubles
>    on Savannah since a week. It just happened again (around 5pm
>    EST). I will now actively try to track the problem and also install
>    some preventive measures.
>
>    Technically, a CVS process launched from xinetd and doing a regular
>    anonymous checkout with Unix account anoncvs is allocating memory
>    forever (claiming 600-800MB out of 1GB physical). Apache and MySQL,
>    in dire of memory, start to swap frantically and basically
>    everything stop responding.
>
>    I did not think about stracing it before killing it, and since all
>    useful info travel through the pserver protocol, I don't have much
>    info. I'll try to correlate the process start time with the CVS
>    project histories. I suggest the next admin running in this kind of
>    trouble does the following :
>
>   - find the top memory consumer: ps -afux -O-r|head
>   - trace it a few minutes      : strace -p <pid> 2>cvs.strace (Ctrl+C
>     to end)
>   - 'fix' the immediate pb      : kill -9 <pid>
>   - notify me :)
>

Will do that.

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