Conversation with #inferno at Sat Dec 29 17:00:27 2012 on powerman@irc.freenode.net (irc)
(17:03:35) powerman: I've just got loadavg about 600 and growing… it looks like this happens because of my service (implemented in limbo).
(17:04:26) powerman: There was no other signs of high load - this happens on workstation, and there was no noticeable slowdown (I noticed high loadavg only because I'm running conky monitor).
(17:05:51) powerman: I've checked ps output with several seconds delay - there was no new processes started between ps executions (at least, no massive amount of new processes), so this load was generated by existing processes.
(17:06:05) powerman: I mean, host os ps, not emu's.
(17:07:21) powerman: After killing that service loadavg stop growing and begin going down (slowly enough, right now it's about 500).
(17:08:23) powerman: Interesting - this service doesn't do anything on it's own, it just process incoming data and provide result on out output. And it doesn't had any incoming data in last days, so it shouldn't do anything at all.
(17:09:24) powerman: except maybe few timers needed for housekeeping - update caches, flush changed data to files, etc.
(17:10:56) powerman: but in absence of incoming data there is shouldn't be much work for housekeeping, most likely it had nothing to do at all (except restarting timers)
(17:12:02) powerman: so… this may be bug in inferno itself. Did you ever seen so high loadavg because of inferno?
(17:18:43) powerman: right now, about 15 minutes after I kill that server, loadavg is about 470. which may mean other inferno services may generate this load too. I'll wait about a hour to see is it finally return back to ~0 or stop at some other high value like 300 - then I'll kill other inferno services to see is that helps.
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