Hi all, I have an app that runs on multiple boxes. On my slackware box, running Python 2.5.1, top shows this:
Mem: 1002736k total, 453268k used, 549468k free, 31392k buffers Swap: 2097136k total, 0k used, 2097136k free, 136876k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2741 dnm 16 0 267m 261m 2676 S 99.3 26.7 14:54.62 python The same app running on OpenBSD 4.1 (but on Python 2.5P3 from ports) yields this (actually, I have 2 copies running on a dualcore box): Memory: Real: 1130M/1989M act/tot Free: 792K Swap: 337M/2048M used/tot PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND 12380 dnm 64 0 926M 436M run/0 - 22:22 73.58% python2.5 22956 dnm 64 0 933M 695M onproc/0 - 22:46 68.55% python2.5 RES was has over 800M earlier in the job. My problem is that the two process under OpenBSD are going to fail with a MemoryError becaause the size just keeps getting larger and larger. ulimit -d is 1G for each process. Any idea why the memory utilization is so much higher under OpenBSD? What I also find interesting is that the OpenBSD box seems to grind to a halt (that's probably due to swapping since there's 500M of swap space in use). Those processes should both be over 90% since they are CPU bound, and they are that way at the start of the run. Gradually, the system % creeps up as does idle, but there's no reason for them to be idle. It's a CPU bound process. (While I'm typing this top is showing cpu rats of 63% and 41% for the two jobs). TIA, nazgul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
