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

[Camron W. Fox]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Blair Zajac wrote:

> "Camron W. Fox" wrote:
> > 
> > Alle,
> > 
> >         We've been running orca in daemon mode for around two days now and it has
> > sustained this CPU usage level almost constantly.
> 
> Orca's known to take a lot of CPU power.  What people commonly do is
> run them in "run once mode" with the -o option via cron.  Run it
> once, twice, or more times a day as needed.
> 

So, we have changed the job from daemon back to cron, but each one time 
run through is taking between 239 and 293 minutes. Is there any way to 
streamline this? 

> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Make sure you're using the latest orcallator.se and orcallator.cfg.
> It'll work around these issues.  You can get them from
> 
> http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/orca-0.27b3.tar.gz
> 

I have updated orcallator.se and orcallator.cfg to Rev 35 but am still 
getting the "does not match column descsription" errors.


-- 
Best Regards,
Camron

Camron W. Fox
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High Performance Computing Group
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