Re: [Savannah-hackers] Savannah CVS update performance...

[Vincent Caron]

Eric Blossom wrote:
> OK.  I just reproduced the same test on the same machine, I'm now down
> to 6.3 seconds.  Can you say highly variable...

Apologies, Savannah does have serious slow down problems. It's peak time 
now, and a gnuradio checkout took me 5m40 locally on the server !

From here, I can see kswapd taking most time, half of the processes in 
the D state (uninterruptible state = low-level I/O bottleneck I guess), 
and no a byte of free swap. Conclusion : kswapd is swapping in and out 
permanently, this machine is in dire of swap space. It only has a 340MB 
swap for 1GB RAM. The Linux 2.4 VM requires 2GB of swap for proper 
operation on this hardware.

I higly recommend to enlarge the current swap partition or add a 1,5GB 
one. Someone is handling this ?


PS: adding some RAM wouldn't hurt, if you have some spare, please feed 
it to subversions. It would at least help to reduce the time periods 
where swap is awfully degrading performances.