[8.170][INFO][NONE] CPU load increase after up2date

I am investigating the cause of the idle power consumption of the ASG increasing from 27w to 33w after the upgrade.
This is the ASG built using 8.165 ISO and 8.170 up2date package.

These 2 lines look very familiar to me, like I have reported them before. Also this ASG has had a number of restarts a couple of hours ago, so I would expect the logging and other processes to have stablilsed by now.

I will review again after the midnight rollover, which also what I think happened last time.

root 20054 20.4 0.8 48672 32288 ? S 18:12 0:02 \_ confd [worker[:P]rpc

wwwrun 20042 22.4 1.5 62648 60640 ? S 18:12 0:05 | \_ /var/webadmin/index
Need more red wine and extra dark chocolate to help revive the little grey cells.

Ian

0 Astaro Beta Bot over 13 years ago

Astaro Beta Report
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Version: 8.170
Type: INFO
State: NONE
Reporter: RFCat_vk
Contributor: 
MantisID: 
Target version: 
Fixed in version: 
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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 13 years ago in reply to Astaro Beta Bot

The two processes identified above have reduced their CPU load, but the system is still running a higher load than under 8.165. I do have endpoint security enabled but not configured.

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0 wingman over 13 years ago

HI Ian

I am using 8.170 iso and I can confirm that the is a higher CPU and memory

CPU 26%
RAM 48% of 3.9 GB

This is increasingly high compared to 8.165 (especially the RAM which used to be 40% max )
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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 13 years ago in reply to wingman

Interestingly the power consumption has increased further with this up2date. Yes, the ASG has had 2 restarts since the update.

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0 kbr over 13 years ago

Thanks for all the interesting information, but please allow me to put some light on that resource consumption: we've been adding features to the ASG, which generally means more processes running, more memory consumption and, of course, more CPU usage and thus more power consumption.
This has always been this way since the early beginnings of V8, and (unless you start voting for "less features in the ASG" on our feature portal) will be a trend for the future...
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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 13 years ago in reply to kbr

Hi kbr,
I don't have a problem with the increased functionality. The changes have been for the better and I enjoy being part of the testing scene.

Let me explain what I am getting at. I have had this particular ASG through a number of beta versions and the power consumption always fell back to around 28 watts when idle, now running at 39w. This was uptil 8.170 where there was a sharp increase and another increase with 8.171.

I rebuilt the ASG from scratch due to a faulty NIC, I replaced the failed Intel NIC with a lower power version of an Intel NIC. I expected the see a slight decrease in power consumption, but I didn't so I updated the thread on the subject.

Ian
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0 kbr over 13 years ago

Well, we don't optimize for power consumption, we don't even test power consumption in our QA runs, and as long as you also change the configuration with each new release, the power consumption isn't even comparable.

Thanks for the info though, i'll talk to my head of QA about the idea of power consumption testing, maybe he's interested.

Cheers,
Kai
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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 13 years ago in reply to kbr

Hi Kai,
I wouldn't expect to see much of a drop before the last RC when all the debugging code is removed.

Thank you

Ian
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