DM, et. al,
I'm running XP 32 bit on my backup low-ish end system (Celeron 1.2 ghz, 512 MB RAM). I'm having that issue where sbbsctrl.exe pegs the CPU utilization at 100%. After a reboot and first starting up, it's idling at 1% utilization, but after 10-20 minutes, it's pegged at 100%. Stopping and restarting sbbsctrl drops the CPU again for the same period of time, then it pegs the CPU again.
I'm running off the nightlies, and tried going back to a backup of my exec dir from a few weeks ago before I noticed this again.
Do you have any suggestions on where to look to figure out what's going on?
It would help to start eliminating servers/services and maybe options like the even thread to try to narrow down where the problem is. Once you have know which thread is causing the excessive CPU utilization, let me know and we can further narrow it down.
It would help to start eliminating servers/services and maybe
options like the even thread to try to narrow down where the problem
is. Once you have know which thread is causing the excessive CPU
utilization, let me know and we can further narrow it down.
I woke up this morning to 100% utilization and started taking services down. I stopped the FTP server, web server, servers on the 'services' tab and the mail server -- and still saw 100% utilization. As soon as I took the BBS down and restarted it, it went back to 11% utilization.
Re: CPU pegging at 100%
By: Digital Man to Poindexter Fortran on Sun Mar 06 2016 08:27 pm
It would help to start eliminating servers/services and maybe options like the even thread to try to narrow down where the problem is. Once you have know which thread is causing the excessive CPU utilization, let me know and we can further narrow it down.
I woke up this morning to 100% utilization and started taking services down. I stopped the FTP server, web server, servers on the 'services' tab and the mail server -- and still saw 100% utilization. As soon as I took the BBS down and restarted it, it went back to 11% utilization.
It would help to start eliminating servers/services and maybe
options like the even thread to try to narrow down where the
problem is. Once you have know which thread is causing the
excessive CPU utilization, let me know and we can further narrow it
down.
I'm getting much the same thing here. I am running some extra stuff
I disabled Web Services and the problem went away. Of course now I'm not running the Web stuff. I thought this might of had something to do with eChickens Synchronet-Web-v4, as it seemed to start occuring when I changed over to the new format. Wondering now if it's something else.
I'm getting much the same thing here. I am running some extra stuff
I disabled Web Services and the problem went away. Of course now I'm not running the Web stuff. I thought this might of had something to do with eChickens Synchronet-Web-v4, as it seemed to start occuring when I changed over to the new format. Wondering now if it's something else.
I re-loaded the dailies using the same .zip files, and the 100% utilization problem went away here.
I'm running XP 32 bit on my backup low-ish end system (Celeron 1.2 ghz,
512 MB RAM). I'm having that issue where sbbsctrl.exe pegs the CPU utilization at 100%. After a reboot and first starting up, it's idling
at 1% utilization, but after 10-20 minutes, it's pegged at 100%.
Stopping and restarting sbbsctrl drops the CPU again for the same
period of time, then it pegs the CPU again.
It would help to start eliminating servers/services and maybe
options like the even thread to try to narrow down where the
problem is. Once you have know which thread is causing the
excessive CPU utilization, let me know and we can further narrow
it down.
Postscript:
Re: CPU pegging at 100%
By: Digital Man to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Mar 07 2016 04:32 pm
It would help to start eliminating servers/services and maybe
options like the even thread to try to narrow down where the
problem is. Once you have know which thread is causing the
excessive CPU utilization, let me know and we can further narrow DM>> it down.
Postscript:
I tried a few things, like new dailies, then tried doing a fresh install with 3.16c. All of these appeared to do the trick for a time, then the CPU would peg.
I thought I'd start disabling other servers/events and disabled the newslink event first. The problem went away. When I re-enabled the event and watched it run, I noticed that one of the groups was causing the job to not complete, and to peg the CPU and stay pegged.
I removed that group from my config, re-enabled NEWSLINK and all seems well now.
Do you have any log output from one of those episodes? It sounds like something probably fixable in the newslink.js script, but I'd need more details.
I thought I'd start disabling other servers/events and disabled the newslink event first. The problem went away. When I re-enabled the
event and watched it run, I noticed that one of the groups was causing
the job to not complete, and to peg the CPU and stay pegged.
I removed that group from my config, re-enabled NEWSLINK and all seems well now.
Re: CPU pegging at 100%
By: Digital Man to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Mar 21 2016 02:54 pm
Do you have any log output from one of those episodes? It sounds like something probably fixable in the newslink.js script, but I'd need more details.
Where would it log?
In the events screen, it would just hang without any
additional output.
what group was it? could you have had a bad lastread pointer and your system was trying to download all articles in that group?
hung? Also, if you could enable debug output (with the '-d' command-line option) and reproduce the hang and provide that log output, that could be very helpful.
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