# processor load problem - update

Tom Ritchford (tom@mvision.com)
Mon, 13 Nov 1995 11:12:04 PST

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    >From: andreas.dieberger@lcc.gatech.edu (Andreas Dieberger)
    >Thanks for the replies I got so far. Here is an update on the situation and
    >some previously missing info:
    >
    >The server we are running is 1.7.8p4  with the MPLpatch 1.4.
    >
    >It certainly was not a good idea to run the MOO under root and with that
    >high priorities - that was an accident it seems. Still that alone doesnt
    >explain why an empty moo needs that many cycles on the server.
    >
    >So today our sysop (Michael Mealling) checked what the MOO does all the
    >time. At that point the MOO was basically idling with only me logged in and
    >3 queued tasks that didnt do anything except waiting (using suspend).
    >
    >Here is an extract of what he saw:

    [Lots of timer stuff deleted...]

    Hmm... perhaps someone is running a verb that has suspend( 0 ) in it... and a loop?

    Someone did that on Id MOO and used 96% of the server's CPU.... we're not
    even running under root!

        /t

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