[seng_462] Chris: tmp folders probably need to be cleared

  • From: botlhale@xxxxxxx
  • To: seng_462@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:56:39 -0700

Hi Chris,

I have scheduled to run our group tests at 8 am but probably won't be able
to start running them by then because when I tried to save changes to our
files in the tmp directory I got the following message:

"utilities.py" E514: write error (file system full?)
WARNING: Original file may be lost or damaged
don't quit the editor until the file is successfully written!

Looking forward to your assistance on this,

Thank you,
Botlhale Ntsimane

> Hey Cody -
>
> Need your help. These could be run away processes. The load on b40 to 149
> for over 6 hours (start time 00:38) has been at least 50% because of your
> httpd processes. Are you running some special test? If not, please stop,
> or
> kill all of them.
>
> *Processes (b140 example, same for b141 to 149):*
> %CPU CPU  NI S     TIME COMMAND
>  0.1   -   0 S 00:00:55 [flush-8:0]
>  1.3   -   0 D 00:06:40 /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/bin/httpd -f
> /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
>  1.3   -   0 R 00:06:40 /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/bin/httpd -f
> /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
>  1.3   -   0 D 00:06:40 /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/bin/httpd -f
> /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
>  1.3   -   0 D 00:06:41 /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/bin/httpd -f
> /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
>  1.3   -   0 D 00:06:41 /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/bin/httpd -f
> /tmp/dellamp2/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
> ....
> ....
> .... // 64 threads each machine
>
> *Processes started after midnight:*
> [se462g02@b148 ~]$  ls -ld /proc/16921
> dr-xr-xr-x 7 se462g01 se462g01 0 2011-04-03 00:38 /proc/16921/
>
> *Load average in the lab (Machine 140 to 150):*
> 07:35:31 AM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal
>  %guest   %idle
> b140
> Average:     all   47.50    0.00   52.50    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b141
> Average:     all   46.25    0.00   53.75    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b142
> Average:     all   47.38    0.00   52.62    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b143
> Average:     all   50.00    0.00   50.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b144
> Average:     all   46.50    0.00   53.50    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b145
> Average:     all   48.88    0.00   51.12    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b146
> Average:     all   39.15    0.00   60.85    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b147
> Average:     all   46.63    0.00   53.37    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b148
> Average:     all   48.88    0.00   51.12    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b149
> Average:     all   48.63    0.00   51.37    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00    0.00
> b150
> Average:     all    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
>  0.00  100.00
>



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