[users at bb.net] buildbot CPU usage

Francesco Di Mizio francescodimizio at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 15:53:38 UTC 2016


Hey Dan,

I am using a p4 poller. Maybe it's suffering from the same problems?

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Francesco Di Mizio <
francescodimizio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to provide a bit more context.Right after restarting the master
> and kicking off 10 builds CPU was at 110-120%. This made the UI unusable
> and basically all the services were stuck, including the REST API.
> After 3-4 minutes like this and WITH all the 10 builds still running the
> CPU usage went down to 5%, stayed there for 5 minutes and all was smooth
> and quick again. From then on it keps oscillating, I've seen spikes of 240%
> :(
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> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Francesco Di Mizio <
> francescodimizio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sometimes it goes up to 140%. I was not able to relate this with a
>> particular builds condition - seems like it can happen any time and is not
>> related to how many builds are going on.
>>
>> I usually realize the server got into this state because the web UI gets
>> stuck. As soon as the CPU% goes back to normal values (2-3% most times) the
>> web finishes loading just instantly.
>>
>> Any pointers as to what might be causing this? Only reason I can think of
>> is too many people trying to access the web UI simultaniously - may I be
>> right?
>>
>>
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