Re: "bzr commit" takes 17 minutes?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: 
> 
> I just committed a small change to the emacs-23 branch, and
> experienced the same 17-minute time.  From my .bzr.log:
> 
>   [ 4564] 2011-02-25 13:47:21.246 INFO: Committed revision 100508.
>   1019.921  Committed revid address@hidden as revno 100508.
>   1020.296  Transferred: 310kB (0.3kB/s r:137kB w:173kB)
> 
> 17 minutes to write 170KB!
> 
> I would guess some bad CPU or other resource problem on the server,
> because when it starts sending data downstream, I see my normal
> network throughput figures (hundreds of KB/sec).  So it doesn't look
> like network congestion.

And this is what Jim Meyering found out:

> Whoa.
> The load average was above 90:
> 
>   top - 11:40:56 up 65 days,  8:59,  3 users,  load average: 94.12, 90.53, 
> 81.92
>   Tasks: 1545 total,  43 running, 1500 sleeping,   1 stopped,   1 zombie
>   Cpu(s): 69.9%us, 29.8%sy,  0.2%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,  
> 0.0%st
>   Mem:   6291652k total,  4883792k used,  1407860k free,   128692k buffers
>   Swap: 12582904k total,  7998212k used,  4584692k free,  1229580k cached
> 
> I suspect a cracking attempt, since there were lots of cgit.cgi
> scripts running and many cgit.cgi segfaults logged in dmesg.
> 
> I've made the cgit.cgi script non-executable for now and
> killed all the running cgit.cgi processes, and things seem
> to be returning to normal.

If this slowness returns, please report to
address@hidden, in the thread that I started (and Jim
replied).