Does anyone out there have any idea why a program that has been running on my
system for a couple of days (mathmatical modelling problem) should start losing
cpu usage.
I leave it overnight at 99.9% and when I come back in the morning its at 18%
(or something). There is nothing else big running, here is a list of ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
bin 78 0.0 2.6 920 400 ? S 17:27 0:00 rpc.portmap
hudsonl 331 19.3 4.2 1200 636 ? R 18:07 888:13 Movie Annealpt1.inf
hudsonl 2157 0.0 5.4 1316 812 pp1 S 08:47 0:00 -tcsh
hudsonl 2187 0.0 2.6 932 388 pp1 R 08:56 0:00 ps aux
nobody 156 0.0 3.6 1060 544 ? S 17:27 0:00 httpd
root 1 0.0 2.2 892 332 ? S 17:26 0:02 init [5]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 17:26 0:00 (kflushd)
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 17:26 0:00 (kswapd)
root 46 0.0 2.8 920 424 ? S 17:27 0:00 syslogd
root 55 0.0 2.4 884 360 ? S 17:27 0:00 klogd
root 66 0.0 2.9 924 440 ? S 17:27 0:00 crond
root 87 0.0 2.7 920 408 ? S 17:27 0:00 inetd
root 98 0.0 3.1 956 468 ? S 17:27 0:00 rpc.mountd
root 107 0.0 3.1 984 476 ? S 17:27 0:00 rpc.nfsd
root 121 0.0 2.7 936 404 ? S 17:27 0:00 rpc.pcnfsd
root 134 0.0 4.5 1276 676 ? S 17:27 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
root 146 0.0 3.7 1060 564 ? S 17:27 0:00 httpd
root 161 0.0 3.9 1036 592 ? S N 17:27 0:00 ./amd -p -x error,fatal,user,warn -r -
root 173 0.0 2.4 912 360 ? S 17:27 0:00 lpd
root 184 0.0 3.5 1104 524 ? S 17:27 0:00 smbd -D
root 193 0.0 3.0 956 460 ? S 17:27 0:00 nmbd -D
root 207 0.0 2.5 924 384 v01 S 17:27 0:00 /sbin/getty tty1 VC linux
root 208 0.0 6.5 2916 972 ? S 17:27 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
root 210 0.0 1.9 872 292 ? S 17:27 0:00 update (bdflush)
root 212 0.0 15.0 7612 2236 ? S 17:27 0:01 /usr/lib/X11/AcceleratedX/arch/LINUX/X
root 219 0.0 9.2 2952 1380 ? S 17:27 0:00 -:0
root 224 0.0 10.1 3196 1508 ? S 17:27 0:00 xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon
root 2156 0.0 2.9 960 440 ? S 08:47 0:00 in.telnetd
I have seen with effect on different computers running kernels from 1.2.13 onwards (upto 1.3.89)
Is this because of something that I am running?
Thanks
Liam
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