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Re: Lugnet slowing down?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:22:05 GMT
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:00:15 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

> Tue Sep 29 12:46:00 EDT 1998  0.01  |
> Tue Sep 29 12:47:00 EDT 1998  0.00  |
> Tue Sep 29 12:48:00 EDT 1998  0.00  |
> Tue Sep 29 12:49:00 EDT 1998  0.00  |
> Tue Sep 29 12:50:01 EDT 1998  0.00  | ~9:50AM Pacific time
> Tue Sep 29 12:51:00 EDT 1998  0.00  |
> Tue Sep 29 12:52:00 EDT 1998  0.00  |
> Tue Sep 29 12:53:01 EDT 1998  0.00  |
> Tue Sep 29 12:54:01 EDT 1998  0.00  |
> Tue Sep 29 12:55:01 EDT 1998  0.11
> Tue Sep 29 12:56:00 EDT 1998  0.04
> Tue Sep 29 12:57:00 EDT 1998  0.01
> Tue Sep 29 12:58:00 EDT 1998  0.00
> Tue Sep 29 12:59:00 EDT 1998  0.05
> Tue Sep 29 13:00:00 EDT 1998  0.02
> Tue Sep 29 13:01:00 EDT 1998  0.07
> Tue Sep 29 13:02:00 EDT 1998  0.02

It was technically, according to my watch, exactly 9:53AM when I wrote
the time in that article and my Task number was still steadily heading
downward as time passed. So, I don't know why the load was 0.00. I was
still busily downloading "all messages" (2 each) in all the loc.*
group and there was no long pause in the download rate at this time.

It is good to know it was not lugnet though.

> If Agent starts multiple threads of execution, and your OS doesn't handle
> large numbers of multiple threads well or Agent's multithreading code is
> not O(n), that might be the problem...?

Agent produces a separate task for each download of messages,
apparently. I don't know if it tries to execute these simultaneous or
not.

Sarah HEacock



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  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) CNews (the newsserver software running here) is super-wicked efficient, so it's possible for it to serve data to 1 person (maybe 2) with a load average still at 0.00 -- since it's a load average is an average, after all. But I still think it's (...) (28 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Lugnet slowing down?
 
(...) Here is a list of the points in the past 3 days where the server load average was 0.5 or higher: Sat Sep 26 03:14:00 EDT 1998 0.51 Sat Sep 26 11:13:00 EDT 1998 0.78 Sat Sep 26 11:52:00 EDT 1998 1.51 Sat Sep 26 11:53:00 EDT 1998 0.55 Sat Sep 26 (...) (28 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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