Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-25 Thread Gordon Russell
> > Last I tried (in 2.4), sparse swapfiles were a no-no. Well I definitely wont do that! Its not really a problem anyway, as I can monitor this based on IO disk activity (I suppose). --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read ho

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Johnson
--- Gordon Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, swap is huge (300 MB). But it never gets used > unless you do a yum > upgrade (which needs 200 MB!). Noone has tried this > yet, but I can > monitor that by creating the swap with sparse blocks > and using du. Sparse swap files are the recipe

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-25 Thread Nix
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Gordon Russell said: > monitor that by creating the swap with sparse blocks and using du. Last I tried (in 2.4), sparse swapfiles were a no-no. -- > ...Hires Root Beer... What we need these days is a stable, fast, anti-aliased root beer with dynamic shading. Not that you can

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-25 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am having real problems with what appears to be scheduling issues, > and I am running out of ideas... Why do you think they are scheduling issues? > We have a cluster of 5 machines, each running about 15 UMLs. Things > seem to run great for a while, then performance of

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-25 Thread Gordon Russell
> With 15 guests per host, could you be running yourself out of physical > memory? Nope. 64 MB per host. I have not had more than 10 per machine so far, so thats 640MB used out of 1 GB. I am using tmpfs too... Yes, swap is huge (300 MB). But it never gets used unless you do a yum upgrade (which

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-25 Thread Jim Carter
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Gordon Russell wrote: > We have a cluster of 5 machines, each running about 15 UMLs. Things > seem to run great for a while, then performance of the UMLs seems to > die for a while. > --snip-- > Machines are all 1GB or better, 2GHz or better, on a 0.1GB network > backbone. W

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-24 Thread Gordon Russell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I am having real problems with what appears to be scheduling issues, > > and I am running out of ideas... > > Why do you think they are scheduling issues? Thats a good question! More or less just speculation. If someone does something CPU heavy, and I nice them to 20

[uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-24 Thread Gordon Russell
I am having real problems with what appears to be scheduling issues, and I am running out of ideas... We have a cluster of 5 machines, each running about 15 UMLs. Things seem to run great for a while, then performance of the UMLs seems to die for a while. My solution to this was to look at all ru