[Orca-users] Orca is eating up both my CPUs.

[Camron W. Fox]

Alle,

	We've been running orca in daemon mode for around two days now and it has
sustained this CPU usage level almost constantly.

CPU0 states: 54.1% user,  3.1% system,  0.0% nice, 42.2% idle
CPU1 states: 48.0% user,  4.3% system,  0.0% nice, 47.1% idle
Mem:   772200K av,  729748K used,   42452K free,       0K shrd,   30772K
buff
Swap:  530136K av,   52640K used,  477496K free                  471440K
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
27307 root      25   0 63460  60M  4536 R    91.6  8.0  1328m orca


	We are running on Linux 7.3 2.4.18-17.7.xsmp and are monitoring and are
currently monitoring 81 systems.

	We have been receiving the alot of the following types of errors for all
systems from /var/log/orca:

/usr/local/bin/orca: number of columns in line 130 of
`/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/g21/orcallator-2002-09-24-000' does not
match column description.

	Also, we are getting alot of the following email messages for all systems:

Orca: file
`/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/a01/orcallator-2002-08-17-000.bz2' was
current and now is not.

	and

Orca: file `/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/g24/orcallator-2002-11-07-000'
did exist and is now gone.

	Both of these I'm sure are because of the rsync we have to run to get the
data from the customer's machines on to our server (an ssh rsync job) and
the info conflicts with the state file, but is there any way to avoid it?


	We'd like to keep running orca, but it continues to use more and more
computing resources, making it unfeasible to do so.


Best Regards,
Camron

Camron W. Fox
Hilo Office
High Performance Computing Group
Fujitsu America, INC.
E-mail:			cwfox at fujitsu.com
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