Subject: Re: CPU-bound application performance degradation
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl>
From: bad bob <sfmc68@bellatlantic.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/16/2001 19:20:45
Olaf Seibert wrote:
> 
> On Sat 28 Apr 2001 at 01:02:19 +0000, Ty Sarna wrote:
> > Could this be related to autonice?
> 
> I don't think so - the program is niced 20 from the start, and the
> slowdown effect only starts after several days. And, I could have
> mentioned this before, the cpu usage remains the same (nearly 100%),
> even when slowed down.
> 
> I suppose some other cpu-hog should be tried before we conclude it is a
> system problem. It might be an application problem somehow... Is it easy
> to get "performance" numbers out of, say, Seti@Home clients?
I will chime in here too.  I was seeing the same thing on my 
cluster.  all 5 systems did the same thing.  I just shut it off.
> 
> -Olaf.
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