[ale] VM load average stays around 4.5 and jumps as high as 8 or 9

[Jim Kinney]

It's redundant. It';s already set to run during idle time so setting it to
run during idle time will have no effect.

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

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> I don’t understand that answer.  Why wouldn’t the renice command work on
> background process?****
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:53 AM
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> *To:* **Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts**
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] VM load average stays around 4.5 and jumps as high
> as 8 or 9
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> That won't work as it's already a background operation. ****
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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>
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> If that is the case could the OP renice the caching so it doesn’t hang his
> VM?****
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Friday, May 11, 2012 12:23 PM
> *To:* **Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts**
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] VM load average stays around 4.5 and jumps as high
> as 8 or 9****
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> After the update, the CentOS vm needs to run some maintenance task
> (specifically the lib caching process). It takes a long time on a physical
> box (4-5 hours) as it does a literal binary recompile for faster cached lib
> usage (it replaces generic "use this library" call with actual memory
> addresses for the cached libs - slick but setup is slow).
>
> Give it a day to settle down. It will not need to redo it's stuff after
> the next reboot. Next time the app is launched, it will use the modified
> version with the memory locations.
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> Note: this process wreaks havoc with IPS as the running binary IS changed
> from the static one on the hard drive.  :-)****
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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
> lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:****
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> So, I've got a Centos VM that is installed on Mac.  I had a Mac OSX
> update and a gcc update on the VM.
>
> Now my load average sits at 4.5 and every now and then jumps to 8 or 9.
>  when it does that, the VM freezes until it drops back down.
>
> Any clues as to what is causing this?  I'm sure the gcc is not an issue.
>  Do I need to reinstall virtual box?
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As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
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