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Subject: Re: crafty and cpu useage under linux

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:33:59 01/20/00

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On January 20, 2000 at 16:05:51, ERIQ wrote:

>I have crafty running under linux and have noticed for a while that crafty
>starts to use less cpu if my machine has been running nonstop for a week
>or so. If I restart the system then it uses 98-100% cpu but then after a
>few days goes to things like 60-40 even 25% is this my hardware or software
>hardware 166mmx 48mb ram 0 cach on mainboard.
>software caldara 2.3 but have seen problem with redhat 6.0 as well.
>
>sign,
>   Eriq aka bad linux Adm.


Are you running anything in the background, like an apache server or
anything.  My suggestion is to try "ps -ef" and look at the memory size
of everything running, right after booting. Then do the same when it
slows down.  I'll bet something has grown via a memory leak, and is
causing paging.

My quad xeon looks like this:

crafty% uptime
  4:32pm  up 6 days, 31 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.08, 1.06

And it is still running crafty just fine.  I rebooted last
week to install 2.2.14

Bob



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