linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for December 20

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Message-Id: <20101221074727.00900015.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:47:27 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	"J.H." <warthog9@...nel.org>
Cc:	sedat.dilek@...il.com, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...glemail.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ftpadmin@...nel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for December 20

Hi John,

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:29:44 -0800 "J.H." <warthog9@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Gingerbread released last week, loads have been spiking to well above
> 300 on the frontend machines, RAM usage has been in the ~20G range (on
> machines with 16G of RAM), and we've been running an *AVERAGE* of 2000+
> simultaneous GIT processes worldwide (normal is in the 100-200 range).
> 
> Bonus points that we blew a drive on one of the machines yesterday.
> 
> I don't think anyone was quite expecting the onslaught we have gotten
> this time around, and I'm going to have to make some changes before the
> next big release (mainly shifting Android over to the bigger machines)

Thanks for the info.  I figured something like that was up.  I guess we
all just need to be patient for a while.

> With cyclical patterns of fast and slow syncs.  We seem to be (right
> now) in the middle of one of the slow cycles with the last few syncs
> taking a couple of hours each.  The culprit, for at least the current
> sync, seems to be the box with the highest load and the blown drive,
> which I'm also reluctant to disable since it's still handling it's fair
> share of the load and dumping all of that onto the opposite US mirror
> would not be good either.

Fair enough.

I normally wait for the sync to happen before I send out the linux-next
release message each day.  I will continue to wait for a while, but will
lower my expectations :-)
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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