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

[Blair Zajac]

"Camron W. Fox" wrote:
> 
> 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?

Unfortunately, using the -o and cron option uses a ton of start up
time in Orca.

The solution is to have Orca keep itself running but sleep for a while
before doing another round of updates.  This isn't implemented yet and
could take a day.

I could use some help on this feature.. hint, hint.

> > >
> > > 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.

Can you send a snippet of the orcallator-2002-09-24-000 file to me
(not to the list)?

Best,
Blair

-- 
Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/